Habakkuk’s Second Complaint

• 12 Are you not from of old,
  • O Yahweh my God, my Holy One?
  • You[fn] shall not die.
• O Yahweh, you have marked them[fn] for judgment;
  • O Rock, you have established them[fn] for reproof.
• 13 Your eyes 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 You make humankind like fish of the sea,
  • like crawling creatures that have no ruler among them.
• 15 He brings up all of them with a fishhook;
  • he drags them up with a fishnet;
• he gathers them in his dragnet.
  • Therefore, he rejoices and exults.
• 16 Therefore he sacrifices to his fishnet
  • and makes offerings to his dragnet,
• for by them he makes a good living[fn]
  • and his food is rich.
• 17 Will he therefore empty his fishnet
  • and continually kill nations without showing mercy?