LEB HAB section

Habakkuk’s Second Complaint

O Yahweh, you have marked them[fn] for judgment;
- O Rock, you have established them[fn] for reproof.
- 13 are too pure to see evil, and you are not able to look at wrongdoing.[fn]
Why do you look at the treacherous?
Why are you silent when the wicked swallows up
- someone more righteous than him?
- 14  like crawling creatures that have no ruler among them.
- 15  he drags them up with a fishnet;
he gathers them in his dragnet.
- Therefore, he rejoices and exults.
- 16  and makes offerings to his dragnet,
for by them[fn]
- and his food is rich.
- 17  and continually kill nations without showing mercy?

1:? Hebrew “we shall not die,” considered a deliberate scribal change of the text to avoid offensive language toward Yahweh

1:? Hebrew “him”

1:? Or “trouble”

1:? Literally “his portion is fat”

LEB by section HAB 1:12