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.
Topics
Interlinear
Peh
'elyown
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Lamentations 3:38
Verse Info
Context Readings
Israel's Affliction
37
Who is able to say something should occur if Jehovah has not ordered it.
38
That
Phrases
Cross References
Isaiah 45:7
I make light and create darkness. I make blessings and create disasters. I, Jehovah, do all these things.
Job 2:10
He said to her: You are talking like a godless fool. We accept the good that God gives us. Should we not also accept the bad? Through all this Job did not speak sinful words.
Amos 3:6
Will the trumpet be blown in a city and the people not be afraid? Will disaster happen to a city and Jehovah not cause it?
Psalm 75:7
God is the Judge; He brings down one and exalts another.
Proverbs 29:26
Many seek favor from the ruler; but every man's judgment comes from Jehovah.
Jeremiah 32:42
This is what Jehovah says: 'As I brought all these disasters on these people, so I will bring on them all these blessings that I have promised them.