We really cannot trust our estimate of relative righteousness or wickedness. And that is what Habakkuk is saying here. The only thing I can trust is…if I have a foreign righteousness that is given to me by Jesus Christ. The character of God in human history. You do not solve the question. Habakkuk in chapter 2:1, does not get an answer yet. He is waiting for more light. That is not bad. You can go through all your quandaries of faith and at the end you still have to be waiting for more light. But there is something else you can do, Habakkuk 1:12: you can worship. You can wait and you can worship.1
Ralph Davis
1 I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.