not automatically mean that the LXX reading is to be regarded as the preferred text. In general, the text … is well preserved in the Masoretic tradition.” Literary Style Habakkuk could not understand the gross sin of Judah nor God’s seeming indifference to the rampant corruption he saw all around him (1:2–4). This problem is developed in a dialogue format in the first two chapters as Habakkuk rehearses God’s answers (1:5–11; 2:2–20) to his perplexities (1:2–4; 1:12–2:1). The dialogue comes to a climactic