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Habacuc 1:14
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Y haces que sean los hombres como los peces de la mar, como reptiles que no tienen se�or?
y haces que sean los hombres como los peces del mar, como reptiles que no tienen se�or?
Y haces que sean los hombres como los peces del mar, como reptiles que no tienen se�or?
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
creeping: or, moving
no: Proverbs 6:7
Reciprocal: Job 9:24 - earth Ecclesiastes 9:12 - as the fishes Isaiah 59:15 - he that Jeremiah 5:26 - lay wait Jeremiah 16:16 - I will send Ezekiel 29:4 - the fish Ezekiel 32:3 - General
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And makest men as the fishes of the sea,.... That is, sufferest them to be used as the fishes of the sea, which are easily taken in the net, and are common to everyone; whosoever will may take them up, and kill them, and use them for their food; and which also among themselves are often hardly used, the lesser being devoured by the greater; and in like manner the prophet suggests, that the people of the Jews, who were men made after the image of God, and made for society and usefulness, and moreover were God's covenant people; and it might have been expected, that a more special providence would have attended them, more than other men, and especially than what attended the fishes of the sea; yet it looked as if there were no more care taken of them than of these:
as the creeping things [that have] no ruler over them; not the creeping things of the earth, but of the water, the lesser sort of fishes that move in the water; or those that more properly creep, as crabs, prawns, and shrimps; see Psalms 104:25 who have none to protect and defend them, and restrain others from taking and hurting them: this may seem contrary to what Aristotle d and Pliny e say of some fishes, that they go in company, and have a leader or governor; but, as Bochart f observes, it is one thing to be a leader of the way, a guide and director, which way to steer their course in swimming; and another thing to be as the general of an army, to protect and defend, or under whose directions they might defend themselves; such an one the prophet denies they had: and so, the prophet complains, this was the case of the Jews; they were exposed to the cruelty of their enemies, as if there was no God that governed in the world, and no providence to direct and order things for the preservation of men, and to keep good men from being hurt by evil men; or those that were weak and feeble from being oppressed by the powerful and mighty; this he reasons with the Lord about, and was desirous of an answer to it.
d Hist. Animal. l. 8. c. 13. e Nat. Hist. l. 9. c. 15. f Hierozoic. par. 1. l. 1. c. 6. col. 39.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And makest men as the fishes of the sea - mute, helpless, in a stormy, restless element, no cry heard, but themselves swept away in shoals, with no power to resist.
As the creeping things - whether of the land (as it is mostly used), or the sea Psalms 104:25. Either way, it is a contemptuous name for the lowest of either.
That have no ruler over them - none to guide, order, protect them, and so a picture of man deprived of the care and providence of God.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Habakkuk 1:14. Makest men as the fishes of the sea — Easily are we taken and destroyed. We have no leader to guide us, and no power to defend ourselves. Nebuchadnezzar is here represented as a fisherman, who is constantly casting his nets into the sea, and enclosing multitudes of fishes; and, being always successful, he sacrifices to his own net-attributes all his conquests to his own power and prudence; not considering that he is only like a net that after having been used for a while, shall at last be thrown by as useless, or burnt in the fire.
