Instead of (God said, [via Scot]) "A = X" we have, "Joe, in the book of Scot, said: 'A = X'." But in the book of Scot, Joe also murders his neighbor's wife, sleeps with his daughter by accident and ends up dying by getting his hair caught in a tree while running from battle. Perhaps Scot was trying to tell us that Joe's view of God was less than a faithful member of the covenant. So, while Scot initially appears to say "A = X" maybe, upon careful reading, Scot really wants us to know that A most emphatically does not = X.
Reading a verse in isolation is never going to answer the questions we really need to ask.
When we get to Bruce contraditing Scot, Heather and Billy*, we have an opportunity to engage in the conversation that Scot, Heather, Billy and Bruce were engaged in. Who is God, really? Who did people think God is? Why did this** happen to us?
If, on careful reading, we decide that Bruce still contradicts Scot, Heather and Billy, great! That simply means that at least one of them (but probably all of them) has a less-than-adequate understanding of God. We get to be Israel and wrestle with God along with them.
* or characters in Scot, Heather or Billy
** "this" is the exile; let's face it, that's what most of the OT is concerned with understanding