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Habakkuk 1:14

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1:14You made people like fish in the sea,

like animals in the sea48 that have no ruler.

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Footnotes

  1. 48 The Hebrew word רֶמֶשׂ (remesh) usually refers to animals that creep, but here the referent seems to be marine animals that glide through the water (note the parallelism in the previous line). See also Ps 104:25.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

You make mankind like the fish of the sea,

like crawling things that have no ruler.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You have made people like the fish in the sea,

like the sea creatures that have no ruler.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You have made mankind

like the fish of the sea,

like marine creatures that have no ruler.

NLTNew Living Translation

Are we only fish to be caught and killed?

Are we only sea creatures that have no leader?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

You make humankind like fish of the sea,

like crawling creatures that have no ruler among them.

KJV 1900King James Version

And makest men as the fishes of the sea,

As the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?