Ezekiel 20:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I will not be enquired of by you. — As in Ezekiel 14:3. St. Jerome thus comments on the words: — “ To the holy, and to those who ask for right things, the promise is given, ‘While they are yet speaking, I will say, Here I am;’ but to sinners, such as these elders of Israel were, and as those whose sins the prophet proceeds to describe, no answer is given, but only a fierce rebuke for their sins, to which He adds His oath,. ‘As I live,’ to strengthen His solemn refusal.”