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36 to undermine a man in his legal dispute—
    the Lord does not look with favor on these things.[a]
37 Who can speak something and have it happen, unless the Lord commands it?
38 Don’t the bad things and the good both come from the mouth of the Most High?

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 3:36 The Hebrew reads the Lord did not see.

36 to deprive them of justice—
    would not the Lord see such things?(A)

37 Who can speak and have it happen
    if the Lord has not decreed it?(B)
38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
    that both calamities and good things come?(C)

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