Lamentations 3:38
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Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?

Job 2:10 And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

Psalm 75:7 For God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up:

Proverbs 29:26 Many seek the face of the prince: but the judgment of every one cometh forth from the Lord.

Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.

Amos 3:6 Shall the trumpet sound in a city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be evil in a city, which the Lord hath not done?

Context
God's Justice
37Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be done, when the Lord commandeth it not? 38Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the mouth of the Highest?39Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins?…
Cross References
Job 2:10
And he said to her: Thou hast spoken like one of the foolish women: If we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not sin with his lips.

Isaiah 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness, I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord that do all these things.

Jeremiah 32:42
For thus saith the Lord: As I have brought upon this people all this great evil: so will I bring upon them all the good that I now speak to them.

Lexicon
Do not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

both adversity
הָרָע֖וֹת (hā·rā·‘ō·wṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7451: Bad, evil

and good
וְהַטּֽוֹב׃ (wə·haṭ·ṭō·wḇ)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

come
תֵצֵ֔א (ṯê·ṣê)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3318: To go, bring, out, direct and proxim

from the mouth
מִפִּ֤י (mip·pî)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6310: The mouth, edge, portion, side, according to

of the Most High?
עֶלְיוֹן֙ (‘el·yō·wn)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5945: An elevation, lofty, as title, the Supreme


Additional Translations
Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?

Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?

Out of the mouth of the Most High there shall not come forth evil and good.

Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good?

Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?

Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

From the mouth of the Most High Go not forth the evils and the good.
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