Habakkuk 1:14

¹The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.²O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!³Why 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.⁴Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.⁵Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.⁶For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.⁷They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.⁸Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.⁹They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.¹⁰And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.¹¹Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.¹²Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.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?¹⁴And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?¹⁵They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.¹⁶Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.¹⁷Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

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Verse	KJV	BSB	ASV
14	And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?	You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.	and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

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English	Hebrew	Say it	Strong's	Meaning
and you have made	וַתַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה	va-ta-'a-SEH	H6213H	to make עֲבַד (a.vad) 1) to make, do 1a)(P'al) 1a1) to make, create 1a2) to do, perform 1b) (Ithp'al) 1b1) to be made into 1b2) to be done, be wrought, be performed, be executed, be carried out
humankind	אָדָ֖ם	'a-DAM	H0120G	man אָדָם (a.dam) 1) man, mankind 1a) man, human being 1b) man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) 1c) Adam, first man 1d) city in Jordan valley
like [the] fish of	כִּדְגֵ֣י	kid-GEI	H1709H	fish דָּג (dag) fish
the sea	הַיָּ֑ם	hai-YAM	H3220G	sea יָם (yam) : sea 1) sea 1a) Mediterranean Sea 1b) Red Sea 1c) Dead Sea 1d) Sea of Galilee 1e) sea (general) 1f) mighty river (Nile) 1g) the sea (the great basin in the temple court) 1h) seaward, west, westward
like creeping thing[s]	כְּרֶ֖מֶשׂ	ke-RE-mes	H7431	creeping רֶ֫מֶשׂ (re.me.s) 1) creeping things, moving things, creeping organism 1a) creeping things 1b) gliding things (of sea animals) 1c) moving things (of all animals)
[which] not	לֹא־	lo'-	H3808	not לֹא (lo) 1) not, no 1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition) 1b) not (with modifier-negation) 1c) nothing (subst) 1d) without (with particle) 1e) before (of time) Aramaic equivalent: la (לָא "not" H3809)
a ruler	מֹשֵׁ֥ל	mo-SHEL	H4910	to rule מָשַׁל (ma.shal) 1) to rule, have dominion, reign 1a) (Qal) to rule, have dominion 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause to rule 1b2) to exercise dominion

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Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.