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)
39 Why should the living complain
    when punished for their sins?^(C)

⁴⁰ Let us examine our ways and test them,^(D)
    and let us return to the Lord.^(E)
41 Let us lift up our hearts and our hands
    to God in heaven,^(F) and say:
⁴² “We have sinned and rebelled^(G)
    and you have not forgiven.^(H)

⁵⁵ I called on your name, Lord,
    from the depths^(A) of the pit.^(B)
56 You heard my plea:^(C) “Do not close your ears
    to my cry for relief.”
⁵⁷ You came near^(D) when I called you,
    and you said, “Do not fear.”^(E)