4Look, his soul is puffed up and is not righteous within him[]
—but the righteous one will live by his faith.[]
Footnotes
2:4The antecedent of his and him is uncertain, and there are other difficulties with the Hebrew. The phrase must refer to an ungodly man—in the immediate context, to the Babylonians.
2:4The word can also mean faithfulness, but in Romans 1:17 Paul uses the phrase in reference to faith.