Lamentations 3:38
Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
In Context
37Who is able to say a thing, and give effect to it, if it has not been ordered by the Lord?
39What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
Cross References
Job 2:10And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.
Proverbs 29:26The approval of a ruler is desired by great numbers: but the decision in a man's cause comes from the Lord.
Isaiah 45:7I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Amos 3:6If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 3:38-42
The Duties of the Afflicted. ( b. c. 588.) 37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? 38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? 39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord . 41 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens. That we may be entitled to the comforts administered to the afflicted in the foregoing verses , and may taste the… Read the whole commentary →