2 "What do you18:2 The Hebrew for you is plural mean [ch. 12:22;16:44] by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, Jer. 31:29‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
20 ver. 4The soul who sins shall die. See 2 Kgs. 14:6The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. Isa. 3:10,11The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, [Rom. 2:9]and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.
21 See ver. 27"But if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does ver. 5, 19what is just and right, ver. 9he shall surely live; he shall not die.