King James Version (KJV)
Lamentations 3:39
“Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?”
Verse in context — Lamentations 3
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.
About Lamentations
Poems of grief over Jerusalem’s destruction.
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