Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Why should any living mortal, or any man,
Offer complaint in view of his sins?

King James Version

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Holman Bible

Why should any living person complain,
any man, because of the punishment for his sins?

International Standard Version

Why should anyone living complain, any mortal, about being punished for sin?

A Conservative Version

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

American Standard Version

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Amplified


Why should any living mortal, or any man,
Complain [of punishment] in view of his sins?

Bible in Basic English

What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?

Darby Translation

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Julia Smith Translation

Why shall a living man murmur? a man for his sin?

King James 2000

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Lexham Expanded Bible

Why should any living person complain about his sin?

Modern King James verseion

What? Should mankind complain, a living man, because of his sins?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Wherefore then murmureth the living man, let him murmur at his own sin.

NET Bible

Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins?

New Heart English Bible

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

The Emphasized Bible

Why should a living son of earth complain, Let a man complain because of his sins?

Webster

Why doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

World English Bible

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Youngs Literal Translation

What -- sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חי 
Chay 
Usage: 502

man
אדם 
'adam 
Usage: 541

אנן 
'anan 
Usage: 2

a man
גּבר 
Geber 
Usage: 65

References

American

Easton

Context Readings

Israel's Affliction

38 Mem Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good? 39 Why should any living mortal, or any man,
Offer complaint in view of his sins?
40 Nun Let us search out our ways, and seek, and turn again to the LORD.

Cross References

Micah 7:9

I will bear the indignation of the LORD because I have sinned against him, until he has judged my cause and executed my judgment; he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

Proverbs 19:3

The foolishness of man perverts his way, and his heart is wroth against the LORD.

Genesis 4:5-7

but he did not look upon Cain and his present. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

Genesis 4:13-14

And Cain said unto the LORD, My iniquity is greater than I can bear.

Leviticus 26:41

and that I also have walked contrary unto them and have brought them into the land of their enemies; and then their uncircumcised hearts shall be humbled, and they shall plead because of their iniquity;

Leviticus 26:43

That the land shall be without them and shall rest her sabbaths, being desolate because of them; and they shall plead because of their iniquity because they despised my rights and their soul abhorred my statutes.

Numbers 11:11

And Moses said unto the LORD, Why hast thou afflicted thy slave and why have I not found grace in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all these people upon me?

Numbers 16:41

But on the next day all the congregation of the sons of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.

Numbers 17:12

Then the sons of Israel spoke unto Moses, saying, Behold, we are dead, we are lost, we are all lost.

Joshua 7:6-13

Then Joshua rent his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, putting dust upon their heads.

2 Samuel 6:7-8

And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his effrontery, and there he died by the ark of God.

2 Kings 3:13

Then Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? Go to the prophets of thy father and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, No, for the LORD has called these three kings together, to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

2 Kings 6:32

And Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man unto him. But before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door; is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

Ezra 9:13

And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guiltiness, seeing that thou our God hast intervened that we no longer be oppressed because of our iniquities and hast given us such an escape as this,

Job 11:6

and that he would show thee the secrets of wisdom! For thou dost deserve double according to sound wisdom; and thou dost know that God has forgotten thee because of thine iniquity.

Isaiah 38:17-19

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but it has pleased thee to deliver my life from the pit of corruption, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

Isaiah 51:20

Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

Jeremiah 30:15

Why dost thou cry out for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the greatness of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

Lamentations 3:22

Chet It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed because his mercies never diminish.

Jonah 2:3-4

For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about; all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.

Jonah 4:8-9

And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah that he fainted and wished in his soul to die and said, It is better for me to die than to live.

Hebrews 12:5-12

And ye have quite forgotten the consolation which speaks unto you as unto sons, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art reproved of him:

Revelation 16:9

And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, who has authority over these plagues; and they did not repent to give him glory.

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