⁶ For affliction does not come from the dust,
Nor does trouble spring from the ground;

⁷ I form the light and create darkness,
I make peace and ^(A)create calamity;
I, the Lord, do all these things.’

⁶ If a ^[a]trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be afraid?
^(A)If there is calamity in a city, will not the Lord have done it?

⁴ They have spoken words,
Swearing falsely in making a covenant.
Thus judgment springs up ^(A)like hemlock in the furrows of the field.

³⁸ Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That ^(A)woe and well-being proceed?

²⁹ When He gives quietness, who then can make trouble?
And when He hides His face, who then can see Him,
Whether it is against a nation or a man alone?—

²⁷ Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy,
Lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
Lest they should say, ^(A)“Our hand is high;
And it is not the Lord who has done all this.” ’