Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
That
King James Version
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
Holman Bible
come from the mouth of the Most High?
International Standard Version
Do not both good and evil things proceed from the mouth of the Most High?
A Conservative Version
Out of the mouth of the Most High does there not come evil and good.
American Standard Version
Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?
Amplified
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That both adversity (misfortune) and good (prosperity, happiness) proceed?
Bible in Basic English
Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
Darby Translation
Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?
Julia Smith Translation
From the mouth of the Most High shall not come forth evil and good.
King James 2000
Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Is] it not from the mouth of the Most High [that] disaster and good will come?
Modern King James verseion
From the mouth of the Most High does not go out the evil and the good.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
out of the mouth of the most Highest goeth not evil and good"?
NET Bible
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that everything comes -- both calamity and blessing?
New Heart English Bible
Doesn't both calamity and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
The Emphasized Bible
Out of the mouth of the Most High, Proceed there not misfortunes and blessing?
Webster
Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
World English Bible
Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?
Youngs Literal Translation
From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:38
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
37
Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has commanded it?
38
That
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 45:7
I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things.
Job 2:10
But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?"In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
Amos 3:6
Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it?
Psalm 75:7
but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.
Proverbs 29:26
Many seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the LORD that a man gets justice.
Jeremiah 32:42
"For thus says the LORD: Just as I have brought all this great disaster upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise them.