Habakkuk 1:13
Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil,
What it says
He says God's eyes are too pure for evil and asks why He is silent when the wicked consume those more righteous than they are.
What it is doing
This verse states the central theological tension of the chapter.
In context
12Are You not from everlasting, 13Your eyes are too pure to look upon evil, 14You have made men like the fish of the sea, 15The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; 16Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet 17Will he, therefore, empty his net