Lamentations 3:39

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

Lamentations 3:39 · King James Version

In other versions

Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
ASV
What protest may a living man make, even a man about the punishment of his sin?
BBE
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
DBY
Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
WEB
What -- sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin?
YLT
Wherefore does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
ENG
Why doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
WBT
Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
BSB

³⁷Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

³⁸Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

³⁹Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

⁴⁰Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

⁴¹Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.