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Habakkuk 2:6

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take: Numbers 23:7, Numbers 23:18; Isaiah 14:4-19; Jeremiah 29:22, Jeremiah 50:13; Ezekiel 32:21; Micah 2:4

Woe to him: or, Ho, he

that increaseth: Habakkuk 1:9-10, Habakkuk 1:15; Job 20:15-29, Job 22:6-10; Proverbs 22:16; Jeremiah 51:34-35; James 5:1-4

how: Psalms 94:3; Luke 12:20; 1 Corinthians 7:29-31; 1 Peter 4:7

ladeth: Habakkuk 2:13; Isaiah 44:20, Isaiah 55:2

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