Habakkuk 1:14
Strong's Lexicon
You have made
וַתַּעֲשֶׂ֥ה (wat·ta·‘ă·śeh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6213: 1) to do, fashion, accomplish, make 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to do, work, make, produce 1a1a) to do 1a1b) to work 1a1c) to deal (with) 1a1d) to act, act with effect, effect 1a2) to make 1a2a) to make 1a2b) to produce 1a2c) to prepare 1a2d) to make (an offering) 1a2e) to attend to, put in order 1a2f) to observe, celebrate 1a2g) to acquire (property) 1a2h) to appoint, ordain, institute 1a2i) to bring about 1a2j) to use 1a2k) to spend, pass 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be done 1b2) to be made 1b3) to be produced 1b4) to be offered 1b5) to be observed 1b6) to be used 1c) (Pual) to be made 2) (Piel) to press, squeeze

men
אָדָ֖ם (’ā·ḏām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 120: 1) man, mankind 1a) man, human being 1b) man, mankind (much more frequently intended sense in OT) 1c) Adam, first man 1d) city in Jordan valley

like the fish
כִּדְגֵ֣י (kiḏ·ḡê)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1709: 1) fish

of the sea,
הַיָּ֑ם (hay·yām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3220: 1) sea 1a) Mediterranean Sea 1b) Red Sea 1c) Dead Sea 1d) Sea of Galilee 1e) sea (general) 1f) mighty river (Nile) 1g) the sea (the great basin in the temple court) 1h) seaward, west, westward

like sea creatures
כְּרֶ֖מֶשׂ (kə·re·meś)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7431: 1) creeping things, moving things, creeping organism 1a) creeping things 1b) gliding things (of sea animals) 1c) moving things (of all animals)

with no
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: 1) not, no 1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition) 1b) not (with modifier-negation) 1c) nothing (subst) 1d) without (with particle) 1e) before (of time)

ruler.
מֹשֵׁ֥ל (mō·šêl)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4910: 1) to rule, have dominion, reign 1a) (Qal) to rule, have dominion 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause to rule 1b2) to exercise dominion

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
You have made men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler.

Young's Literal Translation
And Thou makest man as fishes of the sea, As a creeping thing—none ruling over him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You have made mankind like the fish of the sea, like marine creatures that have no ruler.

New American Standard Bible
[Why] have You made men like the fish of the sea, Like creeping things without a ruler over them?

King James Bible
And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, [that have] no ruler over them?
Parallel Verses
New International Version
You have made people like the fish in the sea, like the sea creatures that have no ruler.

New Living Translation
Are we only fish to be caught and killed? Are we only sea creatures that have no leader?

English Standard Version
You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like crawling things that have no ruler.

New American Standard Bible
Why have You made men like the fish of the sea, Like creeping things without a ruler over them?

King James Bible
And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You have made mankind like the fish of the sea, like marine creatures that have no ruler.

International Standard Version
"You have fashioned mankind like fish in the ocean, like creeping things that have no ruler.

NET Bible
You made people like fish in the sea, like animals in the sea that have no ruler.

American Standard Version
and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

English Revised Version
and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

Young's Literal Translation
And Thou makest man as fishes of the sea, As a creeping thing -- none ruling over him.
















Cross References
Jeremiah 16:16
Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

Habakkuk 1:13
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?

Habakkuk 1:15
They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.

Habakkuk 1:1
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.

Habakkuk 1:12
Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.

Habakkuk 1:11
Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

Habakkuk 1:16
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.

Habakkuk 1:17
Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?
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