Ezekiel 33:17

17 "'Your people say, "The Master's way isn't fair." But it's the way they're living 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 - being generous to the down-and-out, restoring what he had stolen, cultivating life-nourishing ways that don't hurt others - he'll live. He won't die.

16 None of his sins will be kept on the books. He's doing what's right, living a good life. He'll live.

17 "'Your people say, "The Master's way isn't fair." But it's the way they're living that isn't fair.

18 When good people turn back from living good lives and plunge into sin, they'll die for it.

19 And when a wicked person turns away from his wicked life and starts living a just and righteous life, he'll come alive.