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Selected Verse: Lamentations 3:37 - King James

Verse	Translation	Text
La 3:37	King James	Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Who is it that can (as God, Psa 33:9) effect by a word anything, without the will of God?

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

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

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Why then does a loving God, who disapproves of suffering when inflicted by man upon man, Himself send sorrow and misery? "Because of sins." Lam 3:37 Literally, "Who is this that spake and it was done, though אדני 'ădonāy commanded it not?" Lam 3:39 So long as God spares a man's life, why does he complain? The chastisement is really for his good; only let him use it aright, and he will be thankful for it in the end. A man for the punishment of his sins - Translate: Let "each man sigh for," i. e. because of, "his sins." Instead of complaining because God sends him sorrow, let him rather mourn over the sins which have made punishment necessary. The sense of the King James Version is, Why does a man ... complain "for his sins?" i. e. for the necessary results of them in chastisement.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Why then does a loving God, who disapproves of suffering when inflicted by man upon man, Himself send sorrow and misery? "Because of sins."

Lam 3:37

Literally, "Who is this that spake and it was done, though אדני 'ădonāy commanded it not?"

Lam 3:39

So long as God spares a man's life, why does he complain? The chastisement is really for his good; only let him use it aright, and he will be thankful for it in the end.

A man for the punishment of his sins - Translate: Let "each man sigh for," i. e. because of, "his sins." Instead of complaining because God sends him sorrow, let him rather mourn over the sins which have made punishment necessary. The sense of the King James Version is, Why does a man ... complain "for his sins?" i. e. for the necessary results of them in chastisement.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Who - Nothing comes to pass in the world, but by the disposal of divine providence. This seems to be spoken in the name of the people of God, arguing themselves into a quiet submission, to their afflictions, from the consideration of the hand of God in them.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Who - Nothing comes to pass in the world, but by the disposal of divine providence. This seems to be spoken in the name of the people of God, arguing themselves into a quiet submission, to their afflictions, from the consideration of the hand of God in them.

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