“Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Habakkuk 2 contains 20 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.