Habakkuk 1:14-16

New Living Translation

¹⁴Are we only fish to be caught and killed?
    Are we only sea creatures that have no leader?
¹⁵Must we be strung up on their hooks
    and caught in their nets while they rejoice and celebrate?
¹⁶Then they will worship their nets
    and burn incense in front of them.
“These nets are the gods who have made us rich!”
    they will claim.

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Habakkuk 1:14-16

New International Version

¹⁴You have made people like the fish in the sea,
    like the sea creatures that have no ruler.
¹⁵The wicked^(A) foe pulls all of them up with hooks,^(B)
    he catches them in his net,^(C)
he gathers them up in his dragnet;
    and so he rejoices and is glad.
¹⁶Therefore he sacrifices to his net
    and burns incense^(D) to his dragnet,
for by his net he lives in luxury
    and enjoys the choicest food.

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Habakkuk 1:14-16

New King James Version

¹⁴Why do You make men like fish of the sea,
Like creeping things that have no ruler over them?

¹⁵They take up all of them with a hook,
They catch them in their net,
And gather them in their dragnet.
Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
¹⁶Therefore ^(A)they sacrifice to their net,
And burn incense to their dragnet;
Because by them their share is ^[a]sumptuous
And their food plentiful.