Lamentations 3:39 — Compare Translations
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English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young
What -- sigh habitually doth a living man, A man for his sin?
English ASV
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
English Amplified
Why does a living man sigh [one who is still in this life's school of discipline]? [And why does] a man complain for the punishment of his sins?
English Amplified Classic Bible 1987
Why does a living man sigh [one who is still in this life's school of discipline]? [And why does] a man complain for the punishment of his sins?
English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025
Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?
English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible
Why should any living person complain, any man, because of the punishment for his sins?
English Darby 1890 : Public Domain
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
English EASY 2024
When God punishes us for our sins we have no reason to complain.
English ERV 2006 - Only For Website
No one alive can complain when the Lord punishes them for their sins.
English ESV 2016 == The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles
Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?
English GNT (Good News Translation)
Why should we ever complain when we are punished for our sin?
English God's Word - GW 1995
"Why should any living mortal (any person) complain about being punished for sin?
English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website
Why should [any] living person complain, [any] man, because of the punishment for his sins?
English KJV 1611
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
English LSB
Why should any living person or any man Complain because of his sins?
English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)
Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
Why should any living mortal, or any man, Offer complaint in view of his sins?
English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website
Why should any living man complain, any mortal, in the face of his sins?
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins? נ ( Nun )
English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website
A man who is still alive shouldn't blame God when God punishes him for his sins.
English NIV
Why should any living man complain when punished for his sins?
English NKJ 1982
Why should a living man complain, A man for the punishment of his sins?
English NLT
Then why should we, mere humans, complain when we are punished for our sins?
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
Why should any who draw breath complain about the punishment of their sins?
English Passion Translation Bible 2020
Why, then, should anyone complain over the punishment of their sins?
English RSV (Revised Standard Version)
Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?
English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)
Why then should we, mere humans as we are, murmur and complain when punished for our sins?
English Tyndale 1537
Wherefore then murmureth the living man: let him murmur at his own sin.