Habakkuk 1:14
12 Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.
13 Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing. So why do You tolerate the faithless? Why are You silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?
You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.
15 The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.
16 Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet and burns incense to his fishing net, for by these things his portion is sumptuous and his food is rich.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.
- KJV
- And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
- WEB
- and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things that have no ruler over them?
- ASV
- and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
- DARBY
- And thou makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them.
- BLB
- And You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like creeping things without one ruling over them.
- ÅB
- Du har jo gjort med menneskene som med havets fisker, som med krypet, som ingen herre har!
- OTB
- Du har gjort menneskene som havets fisker,
som kryp som ikke har noen hersker. - B1930
- Du har jo gjort med menneskene som med havets fisker, som med krypet, som ingen herre har!