Lamentations 3:36

36 Quand on fait tort à quelqu'un dans sa cause, le Seigneur ne le voit-il pas?

Lamentations 3:36 Meaning and Commentary

Lamentations 3:36

To subvert a man in his cause
A poor man, as the Targum, which aggravates it; as by courses and methods taken in an open court, so by secret underhand ways, to get the cause from him, and injure him in his property: the Lord approveth not;
or, "seeth not" ^F7; which some understand as spoken by wicked men, who do the above things, and flatter themselves that God sees not, and takes no notice of them, ( Ezekiel 9:9 ) ; and others read it interrogatively, "doth not the Lord see?" ^F8 he does; he sees all the actions of men, nothing is hid from him; but he sees not with approbation; he do not look upon such things with delight and pleasure, but with abhorrence, ( Habakkuk 1:13 ) . The Targum is,

``is it possible that it should not be revealed before the Lord?''

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 (har al) "non vidit, vel videt", Pagninus, Montanus, Calvin.
F8 "Non videret?" Piscator.

Lamentations 3:36 In-Context

34 Quand on foule sous les pieds tous les prisonniers du pays;

35 Quand on pervertit le droit de quelqu'un en la présence du Très-Haut;

36 Quand on fait tort à quelqu'un dans sa cause, le Seigneur ne le voit-il pas?

37 Qui est-ce qui dit qu'une chose est arrivée, sans que le Seigneur l'ait commandé?

38 Les maux et les biens ne procèdent-ils pas de la volonté du Très-Haut?