Habakkuk 2:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

How long?i.e., how long shall this continual annexation be witnessed?

That ladeth himself with thick clay. — Better, That accumulates to himself usury. So the Targum. The rendering “thick clay” originates in a false etymology of the word abtêt, which the student will find in Rashi’s Commentary. For the true derivation see Fürst’s Lexicon.

Habakkuk 2:6

6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woeb to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!