Habakkuk 1:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“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?”
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“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?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thou 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?”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Habakkuk 1:13 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 23:15Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.
- 2 Samuel 4:11How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!”
- 1 Kings 2:32The LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he put to the sword Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
- Esther 4:14For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
- Job 15:15If God puts no trust in His holy ones, if even the heavens are not pure in His eyes,
- Job 24:23He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.
- Psalms 5:4For You are not a God who delights in wickedness; no evil can dwell with You.
- Psalms 10:1Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
- Psalms 10:15Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
- Psalms 11:4The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.
- Psalms 34:15The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous, and His ears are inclined to their cry.
- Psalms 35:17How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.
- Psalms 35:22O LORD, You have seen it; be not silent. O Lord, be not far from me.
- Psalms 37:12The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,
- Psalms 37:32Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,
- Psalms 50:3Our God approaches and will not be silent! Consuming fire precedes Him, and a tempest rages around Him.
- Psalms 50:21You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.
- Psalms 56:1Be merciful to me, O God, for men are hounding me; all day they press their attack.
- Psalms 73:3For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
- Psalms 83:1O God, be not silent; be not speechless; be not still, O God.
- Proverbs 31:8Open your mouth for those with no voice, for the cause of all the dispossessed.
- Isaiah 21:2A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
- Isaiah 33:1Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.
- Isaiah 64:12After all this, O LORD, will You restrain Yourself? Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
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