King James Version (KJV)
Habakkuk 1:15
“They 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.”
Verse in context — Habakkuk 1
[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?
And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, [that have] no ruler over them?
They 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.
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion [is] fat, and their meat plenteous.
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
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Dialogue with God about evil, ending with trust in His sovereignty.
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