Ezequiel 33:17

17 Pero los hijos de tu pueblo dicen: "No es recto el camino del Señor", pero es su propio camino el que no es recto.

Ezequiel 33:17 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 33:17

Yet the children of thy people say
"Not my people"; for surely the children of God could never say what follows; and one would think that even no man could say it, after so much had been said by the Lord concerning the righteous and the wicked, and his dealings with them, which must appear to be just and right, good and gracious; and yet such were the atheism, the perverseness and peevishness of these people, they went on to say as they had done before: the way of the Lord is not equal:
is not according to the rules of justice and equity. The Targum is, ``the ways of the goodness of the Lord are not made plain (or exposed) unto us.'' The answer to which is, but, as for them, their way is not equal;
according to the rule of the divine word; as for God, his way and methods, both of providence and grace, were right and good; (See Gill on Ezekiel 18:25).

Ezequiel 33:17 In-Context

15 si el impío devuelve la prenda, restituye lo que ha robado, anda en los preceptos de vida sin cometer iniquidad, ciertamente vivirá, no morirá.

16 Ninguno de los pecados que ha cometido le será recordado. El ha practicado el derecho y la justicia; ciertamente vivirá.

17 Pero los hijos de tu pueblo dicen: "No es recto el camino del Señor", pero es su propio camino el que no es recto.

18 Cuando el justo se aparta de su justicia y hace iniquidad, morirá por ello.

19 Pero cuando el impío se aparta de su maldad y practica el derecho y la justicia, vivirá por ello.