Habakkuk 2:5

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵Moreover, wine is treacherous;
    the arrogant man shall not abide.^[a]
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
    like death he has never enough.
He gathers for himself all nations,
    and collects as his own all peoples.”

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Habakkuk 2:5 The Hebrew of these two lines is obscure

Habakkuk 2:5 in all English translations

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)

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