Habbakuk moves from trusting God's plan to beginning to see God's eternal perspective.

The five alternatives to living by faith:

1. Simply take for yourself what you think you deserve (2:6-8)
2. Put your hope in material possessions (2:9-11)
3. To pursue advancement at all costs, even if it involves hurting others (12-13)
4. To shame others in order to advance yourself (15-17)
5. To submit your life to something that is dead and mute (18-19)