Lamentations 3:38-40

English Standard Version

³⁸^(A)Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
that good and bad come?
³⁹^(B)Why should a living man complain,
a man, about the punishment of his sins?

⁴⁰Let us test and examine our ways,
^(C)and return to the Lord!

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Lamentations 3:38-40

New International Version

³⁸Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
that both calamities and good things come?^(A)
³⁹Why should the living complain
when punished for their sins?^(B)

⁴⁰Let us examine our ways and test them,^(C)
and let us return to the Lord.^(D)

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Lamentations 3:38-40

King James Version

³⁸Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

³⁹Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

⁴⁰Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

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