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Habakkuk 1:16
Therefore he sacrifices to his dragnet
from Habakkuk’s Second Complaint, Habakkuk 1:12-17
What it says

He sacrifices to his own net because through it he gains abundance.

What it is doing

This verse reveals the idolatry of power and success.

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