Habakkuk 1:14 BSB — MannaFest

Habakkuk 1:14

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

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Habakkuk (420)

(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?

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

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.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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.

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Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה	va.ta.'a.Seh	and you have made	H6213 →
אָדָ֖ם	'a.Dam	humankind	H120 →
כִּדְגֵ֣י	kid.Gei	like [the] fish of	H1709 →
הַיָּ֑ם	hai.Yam	the sea	H3220 →
כְּרֶ֖מֶשׂ	ke.Re.mes	like creeping thing[s]	H7431 →
לֹא־	lo'-	[which] not	H3808 →
מֹשֵׁ֥ל	mo.Shel	a ruler	H4910 →
בּֽוֹ׃	bo	[is] over it

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H3220haiyamthe sea396×

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 6:7
Without a commander, without an overseer or ruler,
leads to
- 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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02Original language & word study

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06About Habakkuk

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Habakkuk