⁷ I form the light and create darkness,^(A)
    I bring prosperity and create disaster;^(B)
    I, the Lord, do all these things.

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.

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)

⁷ It is God who judges:^(A)
    He brings one down, he exalts another.^(B)