Who can straighten
    what he has made crooked?^(B)
14 When times are good, be happy;
    but when times are bad, consider this:
God has made the one
    as well as the other.^(C)
Therefore, no one can discover
    anything about their future.

⁷ They lift it to their shoulders and carry^(A) it;
    they set it up in its place, and there it stands.
    From that spot it cannot move.^(B)
Even though someone cries out to it, it cannot answer;^(C)
    it cannot save^(D) them from their troubles.

³⁷ Who can speak and have it happen
    if the Lord has not decreed it?^(A)
38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
    that both calamities and good things come?^(B)

⁶ When a trumpet^(A) sounds in a city,
    do not the people tremble?
When disaster^(B) comes to a city,
    has not the Lord caused it?^(C)