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Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Ratapan 3:38

Bukankah dari mulut Yang Mahatinggi keluar apa yang buruk dan apa yang baik?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - God Continued...;   The Topic Concordance - Affliction;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Evil;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lamentations;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Divine Freedom;   Lamentations, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Evil;   Lamentations, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Bat Ḳol;   God;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Bukankah dari mulut Yang Mahatinggi keluar apa yang buruk dan apa yang baik?
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bukankah dari pada mulut Allah taala juga keluarlah mana yang baik dan mana yang jahat?

Contextual Overview

37 What is he then that saith, there should some thing be done without the Lordes commaundement? 38 Out of the mouth of the most highest goeth not euyll and good? 39 Wherefore then murmureth the liuing man? let hym murmure at his owne sinne. 40 Let vs looke well vpon our wayes, and remember our selues, and turne agayne to the Lorde. 41 Let vs lift our heartes with our handes vnto the Lorde that is in heauen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 2:10, Psalms 75:7, Proverbs 29:26, Isaiah 45:7, Amos 3:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 1:31 - very good 2 Samuel 16:10 - so let him Nehemiah 4:15 - God Job 1:21 - the Lord gave Job 5:6 - trouble Job 20:29 - appointed unto him by God Psalms 62:1 - my soul Ecclesiastes 9:11 - but Jeremiah 44:28 - shall know Daniel 4:34 - the most High Daniel 5:18 - the most Ephesians 1:9 - purposed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Out of the mouth of the most High proceed not evil and good?] Certainly they do; they come to pass, both one and the other, as God has pronounced, and his will determined; even "evils", as it is in the plural number; not the evil of sin, or of fault; this comes not out of the mouth of God, but is forbidden and condemned by him; much less is he the author of it, or tempter to it; indeed it is not without his knowledge, nor in some sense without his will; not with his will of approbation, but by his permissive will, which he suffers to be, and overrules for good; but evils here design the judgments of God, or punishment inflicted on sinners, and chastisement on his own people; the evil of affliction, or adverse dispensations of providence,

Isaiah 45:7; they are all by his appointment; he has said or determined what shall be the kind and nature of them; the measure, how far they shall go; and the duration, how long they shall last; and the end and use of them; see Job 2:10; and so all good comes from God, who is goodness itself; all created good, as every creature of God is good; every good thing in providence; all temporal good things; as to have a being; to be preserved in it; to have a habitation to dwell in; to have food and raiment, health and long life; these are all by the appointment of God, and according to the determination of his will: all spiritual good things are purposed, promised, and prepared by him in council and covenant; the great good of all, salvation by Christ; this is what God has appointed his son far, and his people to, and fixed the time of it, and all things relating to it; the effectual calling of the redeemed ones is according to his purpose and grace; the persons, thing itself, time, place, and means; also eternal glory and happiness, which is the kingdom prepared, the crown laid up, and inheritance reserved in heaven, according to the purpose of God; all good things, in time and eternity, are as God has pronounced them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Why then does a loving God, who disapproves of suffering when inflicted by man upon man, Himself send sorrow and misery? “Because of sins.”

Lamentations 3:37

Literally, “Who is this that spake and it was done, though אדני 'ădonāy commanded it not?”

Lamentations 3:39

So long as God spares a man’s life, why does he complain? The chastisement is really for his good; only let him use it aright, and he will be thankful for it in the end.

A man for the punishment of his sins - Translate: Let “each man sigh for,” i. e. because of, “his sins.” Instead of complaining because God sends him sorrow, let him rather mourn over the sins which have made punishment necessary. The sense of the King James Version is, Why does a man ... complain “for his sins?” i. e. for the necessary results of them in chastisement.


 
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