And the children of thy people have said: The way of the Lord is not equitable: whereas their own way is unjust.

And the sons of thy people have said: The way of the Lord is not pondered, As to them, their way is not pondered.

But the children of your people say, The way of the Lord is not equal: when it is they whose way is not equal.

Yet the children of your people say, 'The way of the LORD is not just': but as for them, their way is not just.

And the sons of your people have said, 'The way of the Lord is not a fair balance,' even while their own way is unjust.

Yet the children of thy people say,.... "Not my people"; for surely the children of God could never say what follows; and one would think that even no man could say it, after so much had been said by the Lord concerning the righteous and the wicked, and his dealings with them, which must appear to be just and right, good and gracious; and yet such were the atheism, the perverseness and peevishness of these people, they went on to say as they had done before:
the way of the Lord is not equal: is not according to the rules of justice and equity. The Targum is,
"the ways of the goodness of the Lord are not made plain (or exposed) unto us.''
The answer to which is,
but, as for them, their way is not equal; according to the rule of the divine word; as for God, his way and methods, both of providence and grace, were right and good; See Gill on Ezekiel 18:25.

The way of the Lord--The Lord's way of dealing in His moral government.