NET Bible
"Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins?"
— Lamentations 3:39, NET Bible
“Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?”
“Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? ”
“Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?”
“Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?”
“What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?”
“Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?”
to defraud a person in a lawsuit– the Lord does not approve of such things!
מ(Mem) Whose command was ever fulfilled unless the Lord decreed it?
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes– both calamity and blessing?
Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins?
נ(Nun) Let us carefully examine our ways, and let us return to the LORD.
Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven:
“We have blatantly rebelled; you have not forgiven.”