Habakkuk 1:12-14

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹² Art thou not from everlasting,
    O Lord my God, my Holy One?
    We shall not die.
O Lord, thou hast ordained them as a judgment;
    and thou, O Rock, hast established them for chastisement.
¹³ Thou who art of purer eyes than to behold evil
    and canst not look on wrong,
why dost thou look on faithless men,
    and art silent when the wicked swallows up
    the man more righteous than he?
¹⁴ For thou makest men like the fish of the sea,
    like crawling things that have no ruler.