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Habakkuk 1:13

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13Your eyes are too apure to see evil,

And You cannot look on trouble.

Why do You blook

On those who deal ctreacherously?

Why are You dsilent when the wicked eswallow up

Those more righteous than they?

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Cross references

  1. aPs 11:4–6; 34:15, 16
  2. bJer 12:1, 2
  3. cIs 24:16
  4. dPs 50:21
  5. ePs 35:25

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil

and cannot look at wrong,

why do you idly look at traitors

and remain silent when the wicked swallows up

the man more righteous than he?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil;

you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.

Why then do you tolerate the treacherous?

Why are you silent while the wicked

swallow up those more righteous than themselves?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil,

and you cannot tolerate wrongdoing.

So why do you tolerate those who are treacherous?

Why are you silent

while one who is wicked swallows up

one who is more righteous than himself?

NLTNew Living Translation

But you are pure and cannot stand the sight of evil.

Will you wink at their treachery?

Should you be silent while the wicked

swallow up people more righteous than they?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Your eyes are too pure to see evil,

and you are not able to look at wrongdoing.

Why do you look at the treacherous?

Why are you silent when the wicked swallows up

someone more righteous than him?

KJV 1900King James Version

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?