“These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.”
The statement that God remains silent and the wicked assume that God is like them establishes the psychological error underlying the wicked's transgression. The reference to God being silent suggests that God has not immediately punished the wicked's transgressions; the apparent delay breeds misunderstanding. The claim that the wicked think God is like them suggests the projection of human standards and limitations onto God; the wicked cannot imagine that God's character transcends their own. The implication is that the wicked's moral blindness flows from failing to recognize divine transcendence and justice. This verse identifies spiritual blindness and the failure to recognize God's character as the root cause of the wicked's transgression.
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