Yet the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
Parallel translations
- KJV Yet the children of thy people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
- BSB Yet your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ But it is their way that is not just.
- NKJV “Yet the children of your people say, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ But it is their way which is not fair!
- NASB “Yet your fellow citizens say, ‘The way of the Lord is not right,’ when it is their own way that is not right.
- NLT “Your people are saying, ‘The Lord isn’t doing what’s right,’ but it is they who are not doing what’s right.
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Cross-references · 7
- Ezek 18:29Yet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not fair.’ House of Israel, aren’t my ways fair? Aren’t your ways unfair?
- Matt 25:24–26“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.
- Ezek 18:25“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?
- Luke 19:21–22for I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You take up that which you didn’t lay down, and reap that which you didn’t sow.’
- Job 40:8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?
- Job 35:2“Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’
- Ezek 33:20Yet you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. House of Israel, I will judge every one of you after his ways.
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