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The Book of Habakkuk, Chapter 1, Verse 14

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[Thou art] of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, [and] holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth [the man that is] more righteous than he?
King James Version
And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, [that have] no ruler over them?
American Standard Version
and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
New English Translation
You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.
World English Bible
and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
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They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
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Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their meat plenteous.
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Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
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I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
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And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make [it] plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
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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.
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Behold, his soul [which] is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
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Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, [he is] a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and [is] as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
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Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth [that which is] not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
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Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?