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Lamentations Chapter 3 verse 39 Holy Bible

ASV Lamentations 3:39

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
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BBE Lamentations 3:39

What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
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DARBY Lamentations 3:39

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
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KJV Lamentations 3:39

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
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WBT Lamentations 3:39

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WEB Lamentations 3:39

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
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YLT Lamentations 3:39

What -- sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 39. - Wherefore cloth a living man complain, etc.? The God of whom the poet speaks is the Searcher of hearts. Why, then, should a man complain when he knows that he deserves his punishment? The close of the verse should run, (Let) a man (rather sigh) over his sins.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(39) Wherefore doth a living man . . .--Better, Why doth a man who lives? i.e., whose life is spared him (comp. Jeremiah 45:5), with all its possibilities of good, complain of sufferings which, however unjust as far as those who cause them are concerned, are, in relation to the sufferer, the just punishment of his own sins?