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

39 Wherefore then is the living [b]man sorrowful? man suffereth for his sin.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:38 That is, adversity and prosperity, Amos 3:6.
  2. Lamentations 3:39 When God afflicteth him.

38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
    that both calamities and good things come?(A)
39 Why should the living complain
    when punished for their sins?(B)

40 Let us examine our ways and test them,(C)
    and let us return to the Lord.(D)

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