Questioning God's Justice and Watching for a Reply
Habakkuk 1:12-2:1
12Are you not from of old, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, you have appointed him for justice, and you have founded the Rock to rebuke him.13Your eyes are too pure to see evil, and you cannot look upon trouble. Why do you look upon the treacherous? Why are you silent when the wicked swallows up the righteous?14You make mankind like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler over them.15He brings all of them up with a hook; he drags them with his net and gathers them with his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.16Therefore he sacrifices to his net and offers incense to his dragnet, because by them his portion is rich and his food is fat.17Will he therefore empty his net and continually kill nations without sparing?
Chapter 2
1I will stand upon my watchpost and station myself upon the siege; I will watch to see what he will speak to me and what answer I shall return concerning my argument.