Habakkuk 2:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

that puttest thy bottle to him. that addest (or pourest) thy fury or venom (Hebrew construct form of hemah. heat, wrath; not of hemeth = bottle) thereto. See Oxford Gesenius, p. 705, under saphak.

makest him drunken, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 9:22).

Habakkuk 2:15

15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!