Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
out of the mouth of the most Highest goeth not evil and good"?
New American Standard Bible
That
King James Version
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Holman Bible
come from the mouth of the Most High?
International Standard Version
Do not both good and evil things proceed from the mouth of the Most High?
A Conservative Version
Out of the mouth of the Most High does there not come evil and good.
American Standard Version
Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?
Amplified
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That both adversity (misfortune) and good (prosperity, happiness) proceed?
Bible in Basic English
Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
Darby Translation
Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?
Julia Smith Translation
From the mouth of the Most High shall not come forth evil and good.
King James 2000
Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Is] it not from the mouth of the Most High [that] disaster and good will come?
Modern King James verseion
From the mouth of the Most High does not go out the evil and the good.
NET Bible
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes -- both calamity and blessing?
New Heart English Bible
Doesn't both calamity and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
The Emphasized Bible
Out of the mouth of the Most High, Proceed there not misfortunes and blessing?
Webster
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
World English Bible
Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
Youngs Literal Translation
From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:38
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
37 {Mem} What is he then that sayeth, "There should something be done without the LORD's commandment: 38 out of the mouth of the most Highest goeth not evil and good"? 39 Wherefore then murmureth the living man, let him murmur at his own sin.
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 45:7
It is I that created the light, and darkness. I make peace, and trouble: yea, even I the LORD do all these things.
Job 2:10
But Job said unto her, "Thou speakest like a foolish woman. Seeing we have received prosperity at the hand of God, wherefore should we not be content with adversity also?" In all these things, did not Job sin with his lips.
Amos 3:6
Cry they out Alarum with the trumpet in the city, and the people not afraid? Cometh there any plague in a city without it be the LORD's doing?
Psalm 75:7
And why? God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Proverbs 29:26
Many there be that seek the prince's favour, but every man's judgment cometh from the LORD.
Jeremiah 32:42
For thus sayeth the LORD: Like as I have brought all this great plague upon this people, so will I also bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.