Charles Ellicott Commentary Lamentations 3:39

"Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?" — Lamentations 3:39 (ASV)

Wherefore doth a living man ... —Better, Why does a man who lives? that is, whose life is spared him , with all its possibilities of good, complain of sufferings which, however unjust as far as those who cause them are concerned, are, in relation to the sufferer, the just punishment of his own sins?