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Habakkuk 1:13 KJV
Habakkuk · chapter 1 · verse 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?Habakkuk 1:13 · King James Version
Habakkuk 1:13 in context
11Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
12Art 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.
13Thou 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?
14And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
15They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
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Key words (Strong's)
- treacherouslybâgadto coverH898 →
- iniquityʻâmâltoilH5999 →
- beholdrâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
- tonguechârashto scratchH2790 →
- wickedrâshâʻmorally wrongH7563 →
- purerṭâhôwrpureH2889 →
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The prophet, having received of the Lord that which he was to deliver to the people, now turns to God, and again addresses himself to him for the ease of his own mind under the burden which he saw. And still he is full of complaints. If he look about him, he sees nothing but violence done by Israel;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-17