“The man went on to say: ‘The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree and so I ate.’

Gen. 3:12, 13.

Adam, by imputing his error to “the woman whom you gave to be with me,” even implied that God was at fault. These efforts at self-justification brought no benefits, though, for God expelled Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden and eventually they died in fulfillment of God’s sentence. (Gen. 2:16, 17; 3:23, 24; 5:5) Later Jehovah stated: “I shall not declare the wicked one righteous.” (Ex. 23:7) Trying to make a wrong course appear right avails nothing with God.