Habakkuk 1:14
You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.
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- Prov 6:7 : 7 It has no commander, overseer, or ruler,
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24How many living things you have made, O LORD! You have exhibited great skill in making all of them; the earth is full of the living things you have made.
25Over here is the deep, wide sea, which teems with innumerable swimming creatures, living things both small and large.
26The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.
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6you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority,
7including all the sheep and cattle, as well as the wild animals,
8the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea and everything that moves through the currents of the seas.
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18anything that crawls on the ground, or any fish in the deep waters of the earth.
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12Am I the sea, or the creature of the deep, that you must put me under guard?
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9You rule over the proud sea. When its waves surge, you calm them.
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11why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you.
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26Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”
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16Have you gone to the springs that fill the sea, or walked about in the recesses of the deep?
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8Or speak to the earth and it will teach you, or let the fish of the sea declare to you.
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5A Better Description of God’s Greatness“The dead tremble– those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
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12Surely, no one knows his appointed time! Like fish that are caught in a deadly net, and like birds that are caught in a snare– just like them, all people are ensnared at an unfortunate time that falls upon them suddenly.
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3Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?
4Motivations of God“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?
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8he alone spreads out the heavens, and treads on the waves of the sea;
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3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?
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3O LORD, of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should be concerned about them?
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1The Description of Leviathan(40:25)“Can you pull in Leviathan with a hook, and tie down its tongue with a rope?
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7Can you fill its hide with harpoons or its head with fishing spears?
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31It makes the deep boil like a cauldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment,
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3You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!”
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30See how he scattered his lightning about him; he has covered the depths of the sea.
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17Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?
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3Therefore the land will mourn, and all its inhabitants will perish. The wild animals, the birds of the sky, and even the fish in the sea will perish.
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3Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?
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19as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man’s hope.
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13Who entrusted to him the earth? And who put him over the whole world?
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7He piles up the water of the sea; he puts the oceans in storehouses.
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13that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?
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9You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.
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6how much less a mortal man, who is but a maggot– a son of man, who is only a worm!”
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22“You should fear me!” says the LORD.“You should tremble in awe before me! I made the sand to be a boundary for the sea, a permanent barrier that it can never cross. Its waves may roll, but they can never prevail. They may roar, but they can never cross beyond that boundary.”
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8The fishermen will mourn and lament, all those who cast a fishhook into the river, and those who spread out a net on the water’s surface will grieve.
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7It has no commander, overseer, or ruler,
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24They witnessed the acts of the LORD, his amazing feats on the deep water.
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6He does whatever he pleases in heaven and on earth, in the seas and all the ocean depths.
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18Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.
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17“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?
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11you kings of the earth and all you nations, you princes and all you leaders on the earth,
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15If he holds back the waters, then they dry up; if he releases them, they destroy the land.
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10But any creatures that do not have both fins and scales, whether in the seas or in the streams, from all the swarming things of the water and from all the living creatures that are in the water, are detestable to you.
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17Surely it is futile to spread a net in plain sight of any bird,