Text -- Habakkuk 1:4 (NET)

1:4 For this reason the law lacks power, and justice is never carried out. Indeed, the wicked intimidate the innocent. For this reason justice is perverted.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Hab 1:4

¹ tn Heb “the law is numb,” i.e., like a hand that has “fallen asleep” (see Ps 77:2). Cf. NAB “is benumbed”; NIV “is paralyzed.”

² tn Heb “never goes out.”

³ tn Or “for.”

⁴ tn Heb “surround” (so NASB, NRSV).

⁵ tn Or “righteous” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

⁶ tn Heb “comes out crooked.”