21 and said:

“Naked I came from my mother’s womb,
    and naked I will depart.[a](A)
The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;(B)
    may the name of the Lord be praised.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 1:21 Or will return there

15 Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb,
    and as everyone comes, so they depart.(A)
They take nothing from their toil(B)
    that they can carry in their hands.(C)

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For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.(A)

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18 give thanks in all circumstances;(A) for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

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17 Every good and perfect gift is from above,(A) coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights,(B) who does not change(C) like shifting shadows.

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10 He replied, “You are talking like a foolish[a] woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”(A)

In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 2:10 The Hebrew word rendered foolish denotes moral deficiency.

20 always giving thanks(A) to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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

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17 for they will take nothing(A) with them when they die,
    their splendor will not descend with them.(B)

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The Lord sends poverty and wealth;(A)
    he humbles and he exalts.(B)

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38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
    that both calamities and good things come?(A)

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and the dust returns(A) to the ground it came from,
    and the spirit returns to God(B) who gave it.(C)

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19 By the sweat of your brow(A)
    you will eat your food(B)
until you return to the ground,
    since from it you were taken;
for dust you are
    and to dust you will return.”(C)

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