Habakkuk 1:13
Your eyes are pure, you do not behold evil, and you cannot look towards iniquity. Why do you look upon the agents of iniquity, and remain silent, while the impious is devouring one who is more just than himself?
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14And you will make men like the fish of the sea and like the creeping things that have no ruler.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 23:15You shall not deliver a servant who has fled to you to his master.
1 Kings 2:32And the Lord shall repay his blood upon his own head. For he killed two men, just and better than himself, and he killed them with the sword, while my father, David, did not know it: Abner, the son of Ner, leader of the military of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, leader of the army of Judah.
Job 15:15Behold, among his holy ones not one is immutable, and even the heavens are not pure in his sight.
Psalms 5:4For to you, I will pray. In the morning, Lord, you will hear my voice.
Psalms 34:15And they have been joyful against me, and they joined together. Scourges have been gathered over me, and I was ignorant of it.
Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 1:13-17
The Prophet's Plea; The Prophet's Complaint. ( b. c. 600.) 12 Art thou not from everlasting, O Lord my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die . O Lord , thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. 13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? 14 And makest men as the fishes of the… Read the whole commentary →