Ezekiel 33:17
Your fellow Israelis say, ‘What Yahweh does is not fair.’ But it is your behavior that is not fair.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
16I will not think about the sins that he has committed; he will surely remain alive.
Cross References
Job 35:2“ Job, do you think that what you said is right/correct? You say, ‘God knows that I am innocent,’
Ezekiel 18:25But you say, ‘Yahweh does not act fairly!’ You Israeli people, listen to what I say: It is certainly not [RHQ] what I do that is unfair, it is what you continually do that is not fair/right!
Ezekiel 33:20But you Israeli people still say, ‘What Yahweh does is not fair.’ But I will judge each of you for what you do.”
Luke 19:21I did that because I was afraid of what you would do to me if the business failed. I know you are a man who does not do foolish things with your money. You even take from others money that does not really belong to you, like a farmer who harvests grain from another man’s field where he did not even do the planting.’
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 33:11-21
The Cavils of the People Answered. ( b. c. 587.) 10 Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? 11 Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God , I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? 12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy… Read the whole commentary →