哈巴谷書1:12-17

1:12 耶和華─我的上帝，我的聖者啊，你不是從亙古而有嗎？我們必不致死。耶和華啊，你派定他為要刑罰人；磐石啊，你設立他為要懲治人。

1:13 你眼目清潔，不看邪僻，不看奸惡；行詭詐的，你為何看著不理呢？惡人吞滅比自己公義的，你為何靜默不語呢？

1:14 你為何使人如海中的魚，又如沒有管轄的爬物呢？

1:15 他用鉤鉤住，用網捕獲，用拉網聚集他們；因此，他歡喜快樂，

1:16 就向網獻祭，向網燒香，因他由此得肥美的分和富裕的食物。

1:17 他豈可屢次倒空網羅，將列國的人時常殺戮，毫不顧惜呢？

Are you not from everlasting,

O Lord my God, my Holy One?

 We shall not die.

O Lord, you have ordained them as a judgment,

and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof.

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil

and cannot look at wrong,

 why do you idly look at traitors

and remain silent when the wicked swallows up

the man more righteous than he?

You make mankind like the fish of the sea,

like crawling things that have no ruler.

He brings all of them up with a hook;

he drags them out with his net;

he gathers them in his dragnet;

so he rejoices and is glad.

Therefore he sacrifices to his net

and makes offerings to his dragnet;

for by them he lives in luxury,

and his food is rich.

Is he then to keep on emptying his net

 and mercilessly killing nations forever?

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    這是哈巴谷第二次質問上帝，仍然是以現實的惡者，可以行惡而興盛來問上帝。的確這是讓人不能接受的，但是又常常覺得在現實環境中要忍耐，所以就不太計較！

    上帝讓先知問出來，也是提醒我們來思考這事，讓我們從現實狀況中去思考上帝的作為，因為我們是在現實狀況中「做神學」，讓我們在此發展，我們在基督裡對上帝的認識與關係。

    願上帝透過現實狀況，引導我們進入永生，正如哈巴谷在此的成長！