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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Habakkuk 1:14 Catholic Bible: How can you treat people like fish or like a swarm of insects that have no ruler to direct them? </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/habakkuk/1-14.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/habakkuk/1-14.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/habakkuk/1-14.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/habakkuk/1.htm">Habakkuk</a> > <a href="/gntd/habakkuk/1.htm">Chapter 1</a> > Verse 14</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../habakkuk/1-13.htm" title="Habakkuk 1:13">◄</a> Habakkuk 1:14 <a href="../habakkuk/1-15.htm" title="Habakkuk 1:15">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/habakkuk/1.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/habakkuk/1.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />How can you treat people like fish or like a swarm of insects that have no ruler to direct them? <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/habakkuk/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />You have made people like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/habakkuk/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />The people you put on this earth are like fish or reptiles without a leader. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/habakkuk/1.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />You have made mortals like the fish in the sea, like creeping things without a leader. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/habakkuk/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things that have no ruler.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things that have no ruler.</p><p class="hdg">creeping.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../proverbs/6-7.htm">Proverbs 6:7</a> Provideth her meat for herself in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/habakkuk/1.htm">Habakkuk's Second Complaint</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">13</span>Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself? <span class="reftext">14</span><span class="highl">And thou wilt make men as the fishes of the sea, and as the creeping things that have no ruler.</span><span class="reftext">15</span>He lifted up all them with his hook, he drew them in his drag, and gathered them into his net: for this he will be glad and rejoice.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/16-16.htm">Jeremiah 16:16</a></span><br />Behold I will send many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them: and after this I will send them many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill and out of the holes of the rocks.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../habakkuk/1-13.htm">Habakkuk 1:13</a></span><br />Thy eyes are too pure to behold evil, and thou canst not look on iniquity. Why lookest thou upon them that do unjust things, and holdest thy peace when the wicked devoureth the man that is more just than himself?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../habakkuk/1-15.htm">Habakkuk 1:15</a></span><br />He lifted up all them with his hook, he drew them in his drag, and gathered them into his net: for this he will be glad and rejoice.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/micah/5-8.htm">Animals</a> <a href="/micah/7-17.htm">Crawling</a> <a href="/micah/7-17.htm">Creatures</a> <a href="/nahum/3-16.htm">Creeping</a> <a href="/jonah/2-10.htm">Fish</a> <a href="/ezekiel/38-20.htm">Fishes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/29-7.htm">Makest</a> <a href="/micah/7-3.htm">Ruler</a> <a href="/amos/6-14.htm">Ruling</a> <a href="/habakkuk/1-9.htm">Sea</a> <a href="/micah/7-17.htm">Worms</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/habakkuk/2-17.htm">Animals</a> <a href="/acts/11-6.htm">Crawling</a> <a href="/acts/10-12.htm">Creatures</a> <a href="/acts/10-12.htm">Creeping</a> <a href="/zephaniah/1-3.htm">Fish</a> <a href="/zephaniah/1-3.htm">Fishes</a> <a href="/habakkuk/2-15.htm">Makest</a> <a href="/haggai/2-2.htm">Ruler</a> <a href="/haggai/2-11.htm">Ruling</a> <a href="/habakkuk/2-14.htm">Sea</a> <a href="/matthew/6-19.htm">Worms</a><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/habakkuk/1-14.htm">Habakkuk 1:14 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/habakkuk/1-14.htm">Habakkuk 1:14 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/habakkuk/1-14.htm">Habakkuk 1:14 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/habakkuk/1-14.htm">Habakkuk 1:14 NASB</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/habakkuk/1-14.htm">Habakkuk 1:14 Bible Apps</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/habakkuk/1-14.htm">Habakkuk 1:14 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/habakkuk/1-14.htm">Habakkuk 1:14 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/habakkuk/1-14.htm">Habakkuk 1:14 French Bible</a><br /><a href="//bibeltext.com/habakkuk/1-14.htm">Habakkuk 1:14 German Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span>Alphabetical: a creatures creeping fish have in like made men no of over ruler sea that the them things Why without You<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="https://biblehub.com/habakkuk/1-14.htm">OT Prophets: Habakkuk 1:14 And make men like the fish (Hab Hb) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools</a><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="/catholic/">Catholic Bible</a><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../habakkuk/1-13.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Habakkuk 1:13"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Habakkuk 1:13" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../habakkuk/1-15.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Habakkuk 1:15"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Habakkuk 1:15" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#f7f7f7"><br /><br /><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"><script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="8261988112"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></div></td></tr></table><br /><br /></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>