American King James Version
"And make men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? "
— Habakkuk 1:14, American King James Version
“And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?”
“and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? ”
“and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?”
“You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.”
“And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things that have no ruler.”
“He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.”
“And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?”
Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power to his god. ¶
Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, you have established them for correction.
You are of purer eyes than to behold evil, and can not look on iniquity: why look you on them that deal treacherously, and hold your tongue when the wicked devours the man that is more righteous than he?
And make men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
They 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.
Therefore they sacrifice to their net, and burn incense to their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?