Lamentations 3:38
Out of the mouth of the Most High 1 There shall not come forth evil and good. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
In Context
37Who has thus spoken, and it has come to pass? 1 The Lord has not commanded it. 1
39Why should a living man complain, 1 A man concerning his sin? 1
Cross References
Job 2:10But he looked on her, and said to her, 1 Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women. 1 If we have received good things of the hand of the Lord, shall we not endure evil things? 1 In all these things that happened to him, 1 Job sinned not at all with his lips before God. 1
Proverbs 29:26Many wait on the favor of rulers; 1 But justice comes to a man from the Lord. 1
Isaiah 45:7I am he that prepared light, and formed darkness; who make peace, and create evil; I am the Lord God, that does all these things.
Amos 3:6Shall the trumpet sound in the city, and the people not be alarmed? shall there be evil in a city which the Lord has not wrought?
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 →