Job 5:6
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6 For affliction does not come from the dust,
nor does trouble sprout from the ground,
Isaiah 45:7
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7 I form light and create darkness;
I make well-being and (A)create calamity;
I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Hebrews 12:15
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15 See to it that no one (A)fails to obtain the grace of God; that no (B)“root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;
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Amos 3:6
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6 (A)Is a trumpet blown in a city,
and the people are not afraid?
(B)Does disaster come to a city,
unless the Lord has done it?
Hosea 10:4
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4 They utter (A)mere words;
with empty[a] oaths they make covenants;
so (B)judgment springs up like poisonous weeds
(C)in the furrows of the field.
Footnotes
- Hosea 10:4 Or vain (see Exodus 20:7)
Lamentations 3:38
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38 (A)Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
that good and bad come?
Psalm 90:7
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7 For we are brought to an end by your anger;
by your wrath we are dismayed.
Job 34:29
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29 When he is quiet, who can condemn?
When he hides his face, who can behold him,
whether it be a nation or a man?—
1 Samuel 6:9
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9 and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to (A)Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not (B)his hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.”
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Deuteronomy 32:27
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27 had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, (A)“Our hand is triumphant,
it was not the Lord who did all this.”’
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