“Yet your people say.
‘The way of Yahweh
Is not just!’
When it is
Their own way
That is not just.”
Just like earlier in chapter 18, Yahweh received a challenge about fairness. Why was Yahweh unfair? Yahweh responded to his people that it was not his ways that were unjust, rather it was their own ways that were not just.
“Yet the house of Israel
Say!
‘The way of Yahweh
Is unfair!’
‘O house of Israel!
Are my ways unfair?
Is it not your ways
That are unfair?’”
Just like earlier in this chapter, Yahweh received a challenge about fairness. Why was Yahweh unfair? Yahweh responded to the house of Israel that it was not his ways that were unfair, rather it was their ways that were unfair.
“Yet you say!
‘The way of Yahweh
Is unfair.’
‘Hear now!
O house of Israel!
Is my way unfair?
Is it not your ways
That are unfair?”
Yahweh received a challenge about fairness. Why was Yahweh unfair? Yahweh responded to the house of Israel. It was not his ways that were unfair, it was their ways that were unfair.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 