Habakkuk 1:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.

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  • Prov 6:7 : 7 Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

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    6 You have made him ruler over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet;

    7 All sheep and oxen, and all the beasts of the field;

    8 The birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatever goes through the deep waters of the seas.

  • 18 Or of anything which goes flat on the earth, or any fish in the water under the earth.

  • 12 Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

  • 9 You have rule over the sea in storm; when its waves are troubled, you make them calm.

  • 11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

  • 16 Have you come into the springs of the sea, walking in the secret places of the deep?

  • 8 Or to the things which go flat on the earth, and they will give you wisdom; and the fishes of the sea will give you news of it.

  • 5 The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.

  • 12 Even man has no knowledge of his time; like fishes taken in an evil net, or like birds taken by deceit, are the sons of men taken in an evil time when it comes suddenly on them.

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    3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

    4 Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?

  • 8 By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:

  • 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • 3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

  • 1 He is so cruel that no one is ready to go against him. Who then is able to keep his place before me?

  • 7 One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.

  • 3 You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

  • 30 See, he is stretching out his mist, covering the tops of the mountains with it.

  • 17 What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

  • 3 Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.

  • 3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

  • 19 The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

  • 13 Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world?

  • 7 He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

  • 13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

  • 9 You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

  • 6 How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!

  • 22 Have you no fear of me? says the Lord; will you not be shaking with fear before me, who have put the sand as a limit for the sea, by an eternal order, so that it may not go past it? and though it is ever in motion, it is not able to have its way; though the sound of its waves is loud, they are not able to go past it.

  • 8 The fishermen will be sad, and all those who put fishing-lines into the Nile will be full of grief, and those whose nets are stretched out on the waters will have sorrow in their hearts.

  • 7 Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,

  • 24 They see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.

  • 6 The Lord has done whatever was pleasing to him, in heaven, and on the earth, in the seas and in all the deep waters.

  • 18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

  • 17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

  • 11 Kings of the earth, and all peoples; rulers and all judges of the earth:

  • 15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • 10 All other things living and moving in the water, in the sea or in the rivers, are a disgusting thing to you;

  • 17 Truly, to no purpose is the net stretched out before the eyes of the bird: