Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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?

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 From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good. 39 What -- sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin? 40 We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.



Cross References

Micah 7:9

The indignation of Jehovah I do bear, For I have sinned against Him, Till that He doth plead my cause, And hath executed my judgment, He doth bring me forth to the light, I look on His righteousness.

Proverbs 19:3

The folly of man perverteth his way, And against Jehovah is his heart wroth.

Genesis 4:5-7

and unto Cain and unto his present He hath not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.

Genesis 4:13-14

And Cain saith unto Jehovah, 'Greater is my punishment than to be borne;

Leviticus 26:41

also I walk to them in opposition, and have brought them into the land of their enemies -- or then their uncircumcised heart is humbled, and then they accept the punishment of their iniquity, --

Leviticus 26:43

And -- the land is left of them, and doth enjoy its sabbaths, in the desolation without them, and they accept the punishment of their iniquity, because, even because, against My judgments they have kicked, and My statutes hath their soul loathed,

Numbers 11:11

And Moses saith unto Jehovah, 'Why hast Thou done evil to Thy servant? and why have I not found grace in Thine eyes -- to put the burden of all this people upon me?

Numbers 16:41

And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur, on the morrow, against Moses and against Aaron, saying, 'Ye -- ye have put to death the people of Jehovah.'

Numbers 17:12

And the sons of Israel speak unto Moses, saying, 'Lo, we have expired; we have perished; we have all of us perished;

Joshua 7:6-13

And Joshua rendeth his garments, and falleth on his face to the earth before the ark of Jehovah till the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they cause dust to go up on their head.

2 Samuel 6:7-8

and the anger of Jehovah burneth against Uzzah, and God smiteth him there for the error, and he dieth there by the ark of God.

2 Kings 3:13

And Elisha saith unto the king of Israel, 'What -- to me and to thee? go unto the prophets of thy father, and unto the prophets of thy mother;' and the king of Israel saith to him, 'Nay, for Jehovah hath called for these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.'

2 Kings 6:32

And Elisha is sitting in his house, and the elders are sitting with him, and the king sendeth a man from before him; before the messenger doth come unto him, even he himself said unto the elders, 'Have ye seen that this son of the murderer hath sent to turn aside my head? see, at the coming in of the messenger, shut the door, and ye have held him fast at the door, is not the sound of the feet of his lord behind him?'

Ezra 9:13

'And after all that hath come upon us for our evil works, and for our great guilt (for Thou, O our God, hast kept back of the rod from our iniquities, and hast given to us an escape like this),

Job 11:6

And declare to thee secrets of wisdom, For counsel hath foldings. And know thou that God forgetteth for thee, Some of thine iniquity.

Isaiah 38:17-19

Lo, to peace He changed for me bitterness, And Thou hast delighted in my soul without corruption, For Thou hast cast behind Thy back all my sins.

Isaiah 51:20

Thy sons have been wrapped up, they have lain down, At the head of all out places, as a wild ox in a net, They are full of the fury of Jehovah, The rebuke of Thy God.

Jeremiah 30:15

What! -- thou criest concerning thy breach! Incurable is thy pain, Because of the abundance of thy iniquity, Mighty have been thy sins! I have done these to thee.

Lamentations 3:22

The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies.

Jonah 2:3-4

When Thou dost cast me into the deep, Into the heart of the seas, Then the flood doth compass me, All Thy breakers and Thy billows have passed over me.

Jonah 4:8-9

And it cometh to pass, about the rising of the sun, that God appointeth a cutting east wind, and the sun smiteth on the head of Jonah, and he wrappeth himself up, and asketh his soul to die, and saith, 'Better is my death than my life.'

Hebrews 12:5-12

and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, 'My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him,

Revelation 16:9

and men were scorched with great heat, and they did speak evil of the name of God, who hath authority over these plagues, and they did not reform -- to give to Him glory.

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