Contending in Judgement

Quid vultis mecum judicio contendere? Omnes dereliquistis me, dicit Dominus.  Prona est ad excusationem sui humana perversitas, ut quidquid merito sustinent, injuste sustinere videantur, et propriam culpam referant ad judicium Dei. Frustra, igitur, ait, obtenditis querimonias, et iniquam causam in judicem, cum impietatis vestrae sit, quod patimini. Quodque sequitur: 'Et omnes inique egistis in me' a Septuaginta additum est. Sanctus Hieronymus, Commentariorum In Jeremiam Propheta, Liber I, Cap II

Why do you wish to contend with me in judgement? You have all abandoned me, says the Lord. 1 Human perversity is prone to making excuses for itself, that whatever they deservedly suffer they seem to suffer unjustly and they ascribe fault to the judgement of God. Therefore it says, vainly do you offer excuses and claim an iniquitous judgement, when it is by your impiety that you suffer. And here in the Septuagint is added: 'And all of you have acted unjustly against me.' Saint Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah, Book 1, Chap 2 1  Jer 2.29