Ezekiel 33:17

Modern

Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.

Traditional

Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.

Literal

And the sons of your people may say, ‘The way of the Lord is not balanced.’ And they—their way is not balanced.

Latin

Et dixerunt filii populi tui: Non est æqui ponderis via Domini: et ipsorum via injusta est.

Hebrew

English

Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.

The way of the Lord is not just: People thought it was wrong for God to use Babylon to destroy Jerusalem. The Lord quickly corrected this idea (Ezekiel 33:18).
their way that is not just: The people's mistake was refusing to repent and accusing God of being unjust.
I will judge each of you according to his ways: The Lord's judgment is never random but matches their sins. If they repent, trust the Lord for salvation, and act justly and rightly, they have hope for the future (compare Ephesians 2:8–10).

Matthew 25:24–26
Finally, the servant who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed.
Ezekiel 18:29
Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
Ezekiel 18:25
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
Ezekiel 33:20
Yet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But I will judge each of you according to his ways, O house of Israel.”
Job 35:2
“Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
Job 40:8
Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
Luke 19:21–22
For I was afraid of you, because you are a harsh man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’

LORD: Names or title used to refer to God