habakkuk 1:14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

habakkuk 1:14 [Why] hast Thou made men like the fish of the sea, Like creeping things without a ruler over them?

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 were no God. He compares the world to the sea; men to fishes; Nebuchadnezzar to a fisherman (Hab 1:15-17).

habakkuk 1:14 [Why] hast Thou made men like the fish of the sea, Like creeping things without a ruler over them?

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