American King James Version
"Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. ¶ "
— Habakkuk 2:4, American King James Version
“Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.”
“Behold, his soul is puffed up, it is not upright in him; but the righteous shall live by his faith. ”
“Behold, his soul is puffed up. It is not upright in him, but the righteous will live by his faith.”
“Look, the one whose desires are not upright will faint from exhaustion, but the person of integrity will live because of his faithfulness.”
“Behold, he that is unbelieving, his soul shall not be right in himself: but the just shall live in his faith.”
“As for the man of pride, my soul has no pleasure in him; but the upright man will have life through his good faith.”
“Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.”
I will stand on my watch, and set me on the tower, and will watch to see what he will say to me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain on tables, that he may run that reads it.
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.
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. ¶
Yes also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither keeps at home, who enlarges his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to him all nations, and heaps to him all people:
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increases that which is not his! how long? and to him that lades himself with thick clay!
Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite you, and awake that shall vex you, and you shall be for booties to them?