John Calvin Commentary Ezekiel 18:29

"Yet saith the house of Israel, The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?" — Ezekiel 18:29 (ASV)

Here God briefly shows how furious those are who dare to rebel against Him, even when His justice is manifest. For what can be desired more justly than that God should punish all transgressors of His law, and also that, if sinners repent, He should be prepared to pardon them?

But if it seems hard that punishment should overtake the righteous if they fall away, common sense dictates that no virtue can be approved without perseverance.

Therefore, since it is very clear throughout this course of action that God is just and without blame, what madness it is to vomit forth blasphemies against Him, as if His ways were unjust!

But God shows in one word, as I have mentioned, that the Israelites had no excuse for such dishonesty and impudence. He repeats what He had previously said: that people will always be guilty of rashness in insolently cursing God when their own ways are found oblique and perverse.

But God will sufficiently vindicate His own ways.

But we must add what follows in the next verse.