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Selected Verse: Lamentations 3:38 - Hebrew Names
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| La 3:38 |
Hebrew Names |
Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High? |
| |
King James |
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| evil . . . good--Calamity and prosperity alike proceed from God (Job 2:10; Isa 45:7; Amo 3:6). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Evil - Doth not evil or trouble come out of God's mouth from his direction, and providence, as well as good? |
6 Does the shofar alarm sound in a city, without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, and the LORD hasn't done it?
7 I form the light, and create darkness. I make peace, and create calamity. I am the LORD, who does all these things.
10 But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" In all this Job didn't sin with his lips.