Habakkuk 1:13

American Standard Version (1901)

Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;

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  • Ps 34:15-16 : 15 The eyes of Jehovah are toward the righteous, And his ears are [open] unto their cry. 16 The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
  • Ps 35:22 : 22 Thou hast seen it, O Jehovah; Keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
  • Ps 50:21 : 21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: [But] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.
  • Ps 10:15 : 15 Break thou the arm of the wicked; And as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
  • Jer 12:1-2 : 1 Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously? 2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root; they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
  • Acts 3:13-15 : 13 The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Servant Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied before the face of Pilate, when he had determined to release him. 14 But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you, 15 and killed the Prince of life; whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
  • 1 Pet 1:15-16 : 15 but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living; 16 because it is written, Ye shall be holy; for I am holy.
  • Hab 1:3-4 : 3 Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up. 4 Therefore the law is slacked, and justice doth never go forth; for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore justice goeth forth perverted.
  • Acts 2:23 : 23 him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay:
  • Ps 11:4-7 : 4 Jehovah is in his holy temple; Jehovah, his throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men. 5 Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. 6 Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup. 7 For Jehovah is righteous; He loveth righteousness: The upright shall behold his face.
  • Ps 56:1-2 : 1 [For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath]. Be merciful unto me, O God; For man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me. 2 Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; For they are many that fight proudly against me.
  • Ps 73:3 : 3 For I was envious at the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
  • Ps 83:1 : 1 [A Song, a Psalm of Asaph]. O God, keep not thou silence: Hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
  • Prov 31:8-9 : 8 Open thy mouth for the dumb, In the cause of all such as are left desolate. 9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, And minister justice to the poor and needy.
  • Isa 21:2 : 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
  • Isa 33:1 : 1 Woe to thee that destroyest, and thou wast not destroyed; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! When thou hast ceased to destroy, thou shalt be destroyed; and when thou hast made an end of dealing treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
  • Isa 64:12 : 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
  • Ps 37:12-15 : 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, And gnasheth upon him with his teeth. 13 The Lord will laugh at him; For he seeth that his day is coming. 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, To cast down the poor and needy, To slay such as are upright in the way. 15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, And their bows shall be broken.
  • Ps 37:32-33 : 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him. 33 Jehovah will not leave him in his hand, Nor condemn him when he is judged.
  • Ps 50:3 : 3 Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.
  • 2 Sam 4:11 : 11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?
  • 1 Kgs 2:32 : 32 And Jehovah will return his blood upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, and my father David knew it not, [to wit], Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.
  • Esth 4:14 : 14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then will relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but thou and thy father's house will perish: and who knoweth whether thou art not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
  • Job 15:15 : 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
  • Ps 5:4-5 : 4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee. 5 The arrogant shall not stand in thy sight: Thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
  • Ps 10:1-2 : 1 Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble? 2 In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

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  • Hab 1:3-4
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    3Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.

    4Therefore the law is slacked, and justice doth never go forth; for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore justice goeth forth perverted.

  • 12Art not thou from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast established him for correction.

  • Job 14:3-4
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    3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?

    4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

  • 4For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes.

  • 17Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

  • 15He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil:

  • 14and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

  • Job 10:3-4
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    3Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

    4Hast thou eyes of flesh? Or seest thou as man seeth?

  • 1Righteous art thou, O Jehovah, when I contend with thee; yet would I reason the cause with thee: wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they at ease that deal very treacherously?

  • 16Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

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    4For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee.

  • Job 15:12-13
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    12Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes flash,

    13That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?

  • 6That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after my sin,

  • 17But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

  • 17Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? In that ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of Jehovah, and he delighteth in them; or where is the God of justice?

  • 5Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.

  • 12For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, And his ears unto their supplication: But the face of the Lord is upon them that do evil.

  • Job 15:15-16
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    15Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:

    16How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!

  • Job 35:5-6
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    5Look unto the heavens, and see; And behold the skies, which are higher than thou.

    6If thou hast sinned, what effectest thou against him? And if thy transgressions be multiplied, what doest thou unto him?

  • 17But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: Judgment and justice take hold [on thee] .

  • 3O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

  • Job 11:14-15
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    14If iniquity be in thy hand, put it far away, And let not unrighteousness dwell in thy tents.

    15Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; Yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:

  • 27With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself froward.

  • 3The eyes of Jehovah are in every place, Keeping watch upon the evil and the good.

  • 7Will ye speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him?

  • 4Jehovah is in his holy temple; Jehovah, his throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.

  • 8Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, And see the reward of the wicked.

  • 14Thou hast seen [it] ; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: The helpless committeth [himself] unto thee; Thou hast been the helper of the fatherless.

  • 13Enter not into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, look not thou on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither lay ye [hands] on their substance in the day of their calamity.

  • 3If thou, Jehovah, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?

  • 8And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job? for there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and turneth away from evil.

  • 2How long will ye judge unjustly, And respect the persons of the wicked? {{Selah

  • 2Let my sentence come forth from thy presence; Let thine eyes look upon equity.

  • 21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: [But] I will reprove thee, and set [them] in order before thine eyes.

  • 15The eyes of Jehovah are toward the righteous, And his ears are [open] unto their cry.

  • 3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean in your sight?

  • 3Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?

  • 8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there are higher than they.

  • 17Shall even one that hateth justice govern? And wilt thou condemn him that is righteous [and] mighty?--

  • 2And enter not into judgment with thy servant; For in thy sight no man living is righteous.

  • 3Thou lovest evil more than good, And lying rather than to speak righteousness. {{Selah

  • 14How much less when thou sayest thou beholdest him not, The cause is before him, and thou waitest for him!

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    9O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous: For the righteous God trieth the minds and hearts.