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Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, house of Israel: Is my way not equal? Aren`t your ways unequal?
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God's Ways Are Just
The people accused God of being 'unequal,' which scholars explain means arbitrary or unbalanced. God refutes this, asserting that His ways are perfectly consistent and governed by eternal principles of justice. The problem isn't with God's fairness but with humanity's crooked ways. As Matthew Henry states, 'In all our disputes with God, He is in the right, and we are in the wrong.'
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Ezekiel
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Equal: literally, “weighed out, balanced.” Man’s ways are arbitrary, God’s ways are governed by a self-imposed law, which makes all consiste…
19th Century
Anglican
The way of the Lord is not equal. —The word means literally, weighed out, balanced. The accusation of the Israel…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet here shows that those who used the common taunt—that the children’s teeth were set on edge because their fathers had eaten sour grapes—…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Yet you say
Notwithstanding these plain instances, which show the equity of God in his proceedings, and vindicate …
The wicked man would be saved, if he turned from his evil ways. The true penitent is a true believer. None of his former transgressions shall be me…
