Lamentations 3:36
Modern Translations
New International Version
to deprive them of justice-- would not the Lord see such things?

New Living Translation
if they twist justice in the courts— doesn’t the Lord see all these things?

English Standard Version
to subvert a man in his lawsuit, the Lord does not approve.

Berean Study Bible
to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.

New American Standard Bible
To defraud someone in his lawsuit— Of these things the Lord does not approve.

NASB 1995
To defraud a man in his lawsuit-- Of these things the Lord does not approve.

NASB 1977
To defraud a man in his lawsuit— Of these things the Lord does not approve.

Amplified Bible
To defraud a man in his lawsuit— The Lord does not approve of these things.

Christian Standard Bible
or subverting a person in his lawsuit — the Lord does not approve of these things.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
or suppressing a person's lawsuit-- the Lord does not approve of these things.

Contemporary English Version
and he knows when you refuse to give someone a fair trial.

Good News Translation
When justice is perverted in court, he knows.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
or deprive people of justice in court. The Lord isn't happy to see [these things].

International Standard Version
When a man is thwarted in his appeal, does the Lord condone it?

NET Bible
to defraud a person in a lawsuit--the Lord does not approve of such things!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

New King James Version
Or subvert a man in his cause— The Lord does not approve.

King James 2000 Bible
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approves not.

New Heart English Bible
to subvert a man in his cause, the LORD does not approve.

World English Bible
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn't approve.

American King James Version
To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approves not.

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

A Faithful Version
To subvert a man in his cause--of this the LORD does not approve.

Darby Bible Translation
to wrong a man in his cause, -- will not the Lord see it?

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

Webster's Bible Translation
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
In subuerting a man in his cause: the Lord seeth it not.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
To condemne a man in his cause: the Lord hath not pleasure in such thinges.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
To condemne a man in his cause: The LORDE hath no pleasure in soch thinges.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord has not approved.

Young's Literal Translation
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord hath not approved.

Smith's Literal Translation
To pervert a man in his contention Jehovah saw not.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment, the Lord hath not approved.

Catholic Public Domain Version
LAMED. as if to pervert a man in his judgment: the Lord does not do this.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
LORD JEHOVAH does not countenance condemning a son of man in his cause

Lamsa Bible
To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD does not approve.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
To subvert a man in his cause, The Lord approveth not.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
to condemn a man unjustly in his judgment, the Lord has not given commandment.
















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