Verse 12
"Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood."
The meaning of this verse was thus summarized by Schultz:
"There is a spiritual and moral order in the universe that is just as impossible to ignore as the natural order. It is as senseless to pervert justice as it is to expect horses to run on the rocks, or for oxen to plow on rock."[30]
Translators have difficulty with this verse, some of them rendering it "horses to run up a cliff... or plow in the sea with oxen"; but such renditions, even if allowed, would not change the essential meaning of the passage.
"It is easier to change the course of nature, or the use of things of nature, than the course of God's providence or the laws of his just retribution."[31]
As Keil said, "These verses show the moral perversity of the unrighteous conduct of the wicked."[32]
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