And he said, “Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand.
for we brought nothing into the world, and we cannot take anything out of the world.
give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
The Lord makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts.
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?
and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?’
I am mute; I do not open my mouth, for it is you who have done it.
to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.
Who gave up Jacob to the looter, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey?
Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
But stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and he will curse you to your face.”
So Samuel told him everything and hid nothing from him. And he said, “It is the Lord. Let him do what seems good to him.”
And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life.
Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the Lord has done it?
Therefore in the east give glory to the Lord; in the coastlands of the sea, give glory to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.
Everyone also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and rejoice in his toil—this is the gift of God.
Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the Lord that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?”
So the king did not listen to the people, for it was a turn of affairs brought about by the Lord that he might fulfill his word, which the Lord spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
It may be that the Lord will look on the wrong done to me, and that the Lord will repay me with good for his cursing today.”
Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed. You have renounced the covenant with your servant; you have defiled his crown in the dust. You have breached all his walls; you have laid his strongholds in ruins. All who pass by plunder him; he has become the scorn of his neighbors. You have exalted the right hand of his foes; you have made all his enemies rejoice.
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