Lamentations 3:36

Lamentations chapter 3 · verse 36 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

King James Version · 1611

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

American Standard Version · 1901

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

v.35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

v.36This passage

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

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Jeremiah 22:3
Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Isaiah 59:15
Yea, truth is lacking; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey. And Jehovah saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.
2 Samuel 11:27
And when the mourning was past, David sent and took her home to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased Jehovah.
Habakkuk 1:13
Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;