Ezekiel 33:17

17 "Now your people say, 'Adonai's way isn't fair!' But it is their way, theirs, that isn't fair!

Ezekiel 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).

Ezekiel 33:17 In-Context

15 if the wicked person restores pledged property and returns what he stole, so that he lives by the laws that give life and does not commit evil deeds; then he will live, he will not die.

16 None of the sins he committed will be remembered against him; he has done what is lawful and right; he will surely live.'

17 "Now your people say, 'Adonai's way isn't fair!' But it is their way, theirs, that isn't fair!

18 When the righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits wickedness, he will die because of it.

19 And when the wicked person turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he will live because of it.