Habakkuk 1:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³Thou 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?

Habakkuk 1:13 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 5:4-5
For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: neither shall evil dwell with thee. …
Psalms 34:15-16
The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. …
Jeremiah 12:1-2
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously? …
Habakkuk 1:3-4
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. …
Proverbs 31:8-9
Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-17)

The prophet, having received of the Lord that which he was to deliver to the people, now turns to God, and again addresses himself to him for the ease of his own mind under the burden which he saw. And still he is full of complaints. If he look about him, he sees nothing but violence done by Israel; if he look before him, he sees nothing but violence done against Israel; and it is hard to say whic…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. purer ... than to behold evil--without being displeased at it. canst not look on iniquity--unjust injuries done to Thy people. The prophet checks himself from being carried too far in his expostulatory complaint, by putting before himself honorable sentiments of God. them that deal treacherously--the Chaldeans, once allies of the Jews, but now their violent oppressors. Compare “treacherous dea…