Amos 3:6; Isaiah 45:7; Job 2:10; Proverbs 29:26; Psalms 75:7
Why then does a loving God, who disapproves of suffering when inflicted by man upon man, Himself send sorrow and misery? “Because of sins.” Lame...
Why doth a living (t) man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? (t) When God afflicts him.
Lamentations 3. The Third Lament. Here it is the singer that comes chiefly to the front; whereas in Lamentations 3:1 it had been Zion, and in La...
Some explain the verb יתאונן, itaunen, by giving it the sense of lying, “Why should man lie?” others, “Why should man murmur?” But I see no...
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Wherefore doth a living man complain - He who has his life still lent to...
Wherefore doth a living man complain— If we consider God's afflictions as a just punishment of our evil doings, we shall never murmur or repine at...
Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not? Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass. A double question...
Zion's Hope in God's Mercy This third poem is the most elaborate in structure and the most sublime in thought of all. The poet speaks not only for...
(37-39) New grounds of patient faith are given: (1) In an echo from Psalms 33:9 , affirming the sovereignty of God. The evil which He permits is und...
Wherefore doth a living man... — Better, Why doth a man who lives? i.e., whose life is spared him (comp. Jeremiah 45:5 ), with all its possibili...
GOD AND EVIL Lamentations 3:37-39 THE eternal problem of the relation of God to evil is here treated with the keenest discrimination. That God...
In this central and longest poem, Jeremiah identified himself completely with the experiences of his people. In the first movement, in language which...
They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto the...
THROUGH REPENTANCE TO FAITH Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the p...
Wherefore doth a living man complain ?.... Or murmur, or fret and vex, or bemoan himself; all which the word k may signify; as the prophet had done...
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Ver. 39. Wherefore doth a living man complain? ] Mourn immoderately, o...
Wherefore , &c. The prophet here seems to check and blame himself for the complaints he had made in the former part of the chapter, wherein he a...
The Duties of the Afflicted. B. C. 588. ...
This verse admits of various senses, caused from the various interpretation of the Hebrew word, which we translate complain , which also signifies t...
The Prophet Prays His Way Through To Confidence In YHWH ( Lamentations 3:19-39 ). When our souls have reached their lowest point there is only one...
EXEGETICAL NOTES. — (מ) Lamentations 3:37 . The reason for not mentioning any name of God, as in Lamentations 3:1-17 , is now wholly dispensed w...
Lamentations 3:39 This question suggests two considerations; each of which demonstrates the injustice of the complaint Why should a living man com...
We are about to read a chapter which is very full of sorrow; while you are listening to it, some of you may be saying, «We are not in that condition....
The Metre changes here. The letters of the Hebrew alphabet, twenty two in number, begin three hemistichs, which make sixty six verses. It would look...
EXPOSITION Lamentations 3:1-25 MONOLOGUE SPOKEN BY AN INDIVIDUAL BELIEVER WHOSE FATE IS BOUND UP WITH THAT OF...
God's Mercy and Power Revealed
Wherefore doth a living man complain? with sighs and groans over his afflictions, a man for the punishment of his sins? That is, to rectify the evi...
Wherefore — The Jews, check themselves in their complaints from the consideration, that nothing had befallen them, but what was the just reward of...
39 Wherefore doth a living man complain,k a man for the punishment of his sins?