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21 He said,

“I came naked from my mother’s womb,
    and I will be naked when I leave.
The Lord gave me what I had,
    and the Lord has taken it away.
Praise the name of the Lord!”

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15 We all come to the end of our lives as naked and empty-handed as on the day we were born. We can’t take our riches with us.

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After all, we brought nothing with us when we came into the world, and we can’t take anything with us when we leave it.

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18 Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.

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17 Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens.[a] He never changes or casts a shifting shadow.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:17a Greek from above, from the Father of lights.
  2. 1:17b Some manuscripts read He never changes, as a shifting shadow does.

10 But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.

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20 And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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    I create the light and make the darkness.
I send good times and bad times.
    I, the Lord, am the one who does these things.

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17 For when they die, they take nothing with them.
    Their wealth will not follow them into the grave.

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The Lord makes some poor and others rich;
    he brings some down and lifts others up.

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38 Does not the Most High
    send both calamity and good?

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For then the dust will return to the earth, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

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19 By the sweat of your brow
    will you have food to eat
until you return to the ground
    from which you were made.
For you were made from dust,
    and to dust you will return.”

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