Habakkuk 1:3 · Darby Translation
Habakkuk 1:3 in the Original Hebrew
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Habakkuk 1:3 in Other Translations
| KJV | Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. |
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| WEB | Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up. |
| ASV | Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up. |
| YLT | Why dost Thou shew me iniquity, And perversity dost cause to behold? And spoiling and violence are before me, And there is strife, and contention doth lift itself up, |
| WBT | Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause [me] to behold grievance? for devastation and violence [are] before me: and there are [that] raise strife and contention. |
| DBY | Why dost thou cause me to see iniquity, and lookest thou upon grievance? For spoiling and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up. |
Commentary on Habakkuk 1:3
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John Gill · Habakkuk 1:3
Why dost thou show me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance?.... That is, wicked men, and such as give a great deal of trouble vexation, and grief to others, by their rapine and oppression; suggesting that he could not turn his eyes any where, but such persons presented themselves to his view; and that their wicked actions were performed by them openly and publicly, in the sight of all, without any shame or fear. So the Targum,
"why do I see oppressors, and behold those that do the labour of falsehood?''
For spoiling and violence are before me; in my sight and presence, though a prophet, and notwithstanding all my remonstrances, exhortations, and reproofs; such were the hardness, obstinacy, and impudence of this people; to such a height and pitch of iniquity were they arrived, as to regard not the prophets of the Lord. The Targum is,
"spoilers and robbers are before me:''
or, "against me" (q), as in the text; these sins were committed against him, he was injuriously used himself; or they were done to others, contrary to his advice and persuasion:
and there are that raise up strife and contention; in the kingdom, in cities, in families; in one man, brother, friend, and neighbour, against another; which occasion lawsuits, and in them justice is not done, as follows. It may be rendered, and "there shall be and is a man of strife"; so Japhet: "and he shall raise up contention"; one man given to strife will and does use great contention in communities, civil and religious.
(q) "contra me", Pagninus, Montanus; "e regione mei", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Tarnovius.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown · Habakkuk 1:3
cause me to behold grievance--MAURER denies that the Hebrew verb is ever active; he translates, "(Wherefore) dost Thou behold (without doing aught to check) grievance?" The context favors English Version.
there are that raise up strife and contention--so CALVIN. But MAURER, not so well, translates, "There is strife, and contention raises itself."
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Questions about Habakkuk 1:3
What does Habakkuk 1:3 say?
Habakkuk 1:3 in the Darby Translation reads: “Why dost thou cause me to see iniquity, and lookest thou upon grievance? For spoiling and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.” Read it in the full context of Habakkuk 1, alongside the classic commentary on this page.
Where is Habakkuk 1:3 found in the Bible?
Habakkuk 1:3 is in the book of Habakkuk, chapter 1, verse 3, in the Old Testament.
What Bible translation is Habakkuk 1:3 shown in?
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And cause me to behold grievance - עמל amal, labor, toil, distress, misery, etc., the common fruits of sin.