Yechezkel 33:17

17 Yet the Bnei Amecha say, The Derech Adonoi is not proper; but as for them, their derech is not proper.

Yechezkel 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).

Yechezkel 33:17 In-Context

15 If the rashah give back the chavol (borrower’s pledge), give back what he has stolen, walk in the chukkot hachayyim, without committing evil; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

16 None of his chattot that he hath committed shall be remembered against him; he hath done that which is mishpat and tzedakah; he shall surely live.

17 Yet the Bnei Amecha say, The Derech Adonoi is not proper; but as for them, their derech is not proper.

18 When the tzaddik turneth from his tzedakah, and committeth evil, he shall even die thereby.

19 But if the rashah turn from his resha, and do that which is mishpat and tzedakah, he shall live thereby.