Habakkuk 2:5

Yes, moreover, wine is treacherous: an arrogant man who doesn’t stay at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol; he is like death and can’t be satisfied, but gathers to himself all nations and heaps to himself all peoples.

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In The King James Version

Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

In Context

4Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.

6Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

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Cross References

Psalms 138:6For though the LORD is high, yet he looks after the lowly; but he knows the proud from afar.

Proverbs 23:29Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has strife? Who has complaints? Who has needless bruises? Who has bloodshot eyes?

Proverbs 30:13There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

Ecclesiastes 5:10He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.

Isaiah 2:17The loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the arrogance of men shall be brought low; and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 5:11Woe to those who rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink, who stay late into the night, until wine inflames them!

Matthew Henry on Habakkuk 2:2-5

Waiting upon God; The People Directed. ( b. c. 600.) 1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. 2 And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. 4 Behold, his soul which is… Read the whole commentary →

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