Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that good and bad come?
I form light and create darkness; I make well-being and create calamity; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
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?
“For thus says the Lord: Just as I have brought all this great disaster upon this people, so I will bring upon them all the good that I promise them.
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.
but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.
Many seek the face of a ruler, but it is from the Lord that a man gets justice.
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