Habakkuk 1:14

You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.

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KJV

And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

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and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

YLT

And Thou makest man as fishes of the sea, As a creeping thing--none ruling over him.

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And thou makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them.

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John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

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(Verse 13, 14.) Your eyes are the world's eyes, so that you may not see evil, and you cannot look upon injustice. Why do you not look upon those who commit wickedness and remain silent as the wicked devour the righteous? And you make men like the fish of the sea, and like the reptile that has no ruler? LXX: The world's eye, so that it may not see evil, and it cannot look upon grief. Why do you look upon those who despise, will you be silent when the wicked devours the righteous?

Jerome· Commentary on Habakkuk, 420patristic

Makest men as the fishes of the sea - Easily are we taken and destroyed. We have no leader to guide us, and no power to defend ourselves. Nebuchadnezzar is here represented as a fisherman, who is constantly casting his nets into the sea, and enclosing multitudes of fishes; and, being always successful, he sacrifices to his own net - attributes all his conquests to his own power and prudence; not considering that he is only like a net that after having been used for a while, shall at last be thrown by as useless, or burnt in the fire.

Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical

And--that is, And so, by suffering oppressors to go unpunished, "Thou makest men as the fishes . . . that have no ruler"; that is, no defender. All may fish in the sea with impunity; so the Chaldeans with impunity afflict Thy people, as these have no longer the God of the theocracy, their King, to defend them.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

And makest - Not infusing cruel appetites, but permitting them to act according to such appetite which was already in them. As the fishes - Of which the greater greedily devour the smaller. Creeping things - Which in the waters are food for the lesser fry; so the world, like the sea, is wholly oppression.

John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765evangelical

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Jeremiah 16:16
But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.
Jeremiah 5:26
For among My people are wicked men; they watch like fowlers lying in wait; they set a trap to catch men.
Ezekiel 32:3
This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will spread My net over you with a company of many peoples, and they will draw you up in My net.
Ecclesiastes 9:12
For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
Ezekiel 29:4
But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of your streams will cling to your scales.
Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
Proverbs 6:7
Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,

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Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,
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- Job 38:39
  Can you hunt the prey for a lioness or satisfy the hunger of young lions
- Proverbs 30:27
  the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;
- Job 39:26–30
  Does the hawk take flight by your understanding and spread his wings toward the south?
- Job 41:4–34
  Will he make a covenant with you to take him as a slave for life?

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