Lamentations 3:39 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Lamentations 3:39 —

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Cross-References

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Micah 7:9
I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
Proverbs 19:3
The foolishness of man perverteth his way: and his heart fretteth against the LORD.
Genesis 4:5-7
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. …
Jeremiah 30:15
Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.
2 Kings 6:32
But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away mine head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

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Afflictions and Adversities Complaint Contentment Despondency Discontentment Doubting Fault Finding Murmuring

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 37-41)

That we may be entitled to the comforts administered to the afflicted in the Lam. 3:21-36, and may taste the sweetness of them, we have here the duties of an afflicted state prescribed to us, in the performance of which we may expect those comforts. I. We must see and acknowledge the hand of God in all the calamities that befal us at any time, whether personal or public, Lam. 3:37, 38. This is her…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 39)

37-39. Who is it that can (as God, Psa 33:9) effect by a word anything, without the will of God?