Robert Alter on Habakkuk 1:12

  

You shall not die. The Masoretic Text shows “We shall not die,” but this is a tiqun sofrim, a euphemistic scribal correction so as to eliminate the necessity of saying “God shall not die,” when all know that death is not a category that applies to God. (Robert Alter, The Hebrew Bible, 3 vols. [New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019], 2:1332)