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  • Habakkuk 2:6
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    •  6 Will not all of these speak a proverb, an allusion, and riddles against him?+

      They will say:

      ‘Woe to him who accumulates what is not his

      —For how long?—

      And who makes even greater his own debt!

  • Habakkuk 2:6
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 6 Will not these very ones, all of them, lift up against him a proverbial saying+ and an alluding remark, insinuations at him? And one will say,

      “‘Woe to him who is multiplying what is not his own+—O how long!+—and who is making debt heavy against himself!

  • Habakkuk 2:6
    The Bible in Living English
    • 6* Shall not all these strike up a lay of him and propound a satire on him, and say “Ha, you who amass—for how long?—what is not yours, and load yourself up with things you have taken in pawn!

  • Habakkuk 2:6
    American Standard Version
    • 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and that ladeth himself with pledges!

  • Habakkuk 2:6
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 6 Shall not these all of them against him take up—A taunt, A mocking poem, Enigmatical sentences—concerning him? And say—Alas! for him who maketh abundance in what is not his own, How long? that he should be burdening himself with heavy debts?

  • Habakkuk 2:6
    King James Version
    • 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!

  • Habakkuk
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 2:6 w00 2/1 16

  • Habakkuk
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 2:6 g63 12/22 7; w35 152

  • Habakkuk
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 2:6

      The Watchtower,

      2/1/2000, p. 16

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