18:4. This is the heart of God’s teaching on personal and corporate responsibility. God rejected this proverb because it denied his sovereignty over the lives of his people. Because He is Lord over all life, there is always the opportunity for divine intervention. Block writes, “Ezekiel repudiates the fatalism of his peers and announces his own radically theocentric view of the universe. He challenges his audience to abandon their materialistic worldview. They are not victims of immutable cosmic