Habakkuk 1:12
Are You not from everlasting,
What it says
Habakkuk addresses the LORD as everlasting, holy, and his God, affirming that they will not die.
What it is doing
This verse roots the complaint in reverence and covenant confidence.
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