Lamentations 3:38
MEM. Does not both misfortune and good proceed from the mouth of the Most High?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
In Context
37MEM. Who is this, who said to do what the Lord did not command?
39MEM. Why has a living man murmured, a man suffering for his sins?
Cross References
Job 2:10He said to her, “You have spoken like one of the foolish wives. If we accepted good things from the hand of God, why should we not accept bad things?” In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.
Proverbs 29:26Many demand the face of the leader. But the judgment of each one proceeds from the Lord.
Isaiah 45:7I form the light and create the darkness. I make peace and create disaster. I, the Lord, do all these things.
Amos 3:6Will the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not become frightened? Will there be disaster in a city, which the Lord has not done?
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 →