Habakkuk 1:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Habakkuk 1:14 —

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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. 14)

14. And--that is, And so, by suffering oppressors to go unpunished, “Thou makest men as the fishes ... that have no ruler”; that is, no defender. All may fish in the sea with impunity; so the Chaldeans with impunity afflict Thy people, as these have no longer the God of the theocracy, their King, to defend them. Thou reducest men to such a state of anarchy, by wrong going unpunished, as if there w…