Son of man, these men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?
These men have set up their idols in their heart, and put the stumblingblock of their iniquity before their face. The heart is first corrupted, and then the outward manifestation of idol-worship follows: they set their idols before their eyes. With all their pretence of consulting God now, they have not even put away their idols outwardly: implying gross contempt of God. "Set up," literally, raised aloft: implying that their idols had gained the supreme ascendency over them.
Stumblingblock of ... iniquity - (see Proverbs 3:21; Proverbs 3:23, "Let not them (God's laws) depart from thine eye, then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble"). Instead of God's law, which, by being kept before their eyes, would have saved them from stumbling, they set up their idols before their eyes, which proved a stumblingblock, causing them to stumble (Ezekiel 7:19.)
Should I be inquired of at all by them? - literally, should I with inquiry be inquired of by such hypocrites as they are? (Psalms 66:18; Proverbs 15:29; Proverbs 28:9.)