Parallel Verses

Webster

Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

New American Standard Bible

Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That both good and ill go forth?

King James Version

Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

Holman Bible

Do not both adversity and good
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?

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Out of the mouth
פּה 
Peh 
Usage: 497

of the most High
עליון 
'elyown 
Usage: 53

יצא 
Yatsa' 
....out, ....forth, bring, come, proceed, go, depart,
Usage: 1068

References

Context Readings

Israel's Affliction

37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? 38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? 39 Why doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?



Cross References

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

Job 2:10

But he said to her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

Amos 3:6

Shalt a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?

Psalm 75:7

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

Proverbs 29:26

Many seek the ruler's favor; but every man's judgment cometh from the LORD.

Jeremiah 32:42

For thus saith the LORD; As I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.

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