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

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

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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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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?

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 3:6 ram’s horn

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)

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10 But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. (A)Shall we indeed accept good from God, and shall we not accept adversity?” (B)In all this Job did not (C)sin with his lips.

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

42 “For thus says the Lord: (A)‘Just as I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them.

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42 “This is what the Lord says: As I have brought all this great calamity(A) on this people, so I will give them all the prosperity I have promised(B) them.

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But (A)God is the Judge:
(B)He puts down one,
And exalts another.

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

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26 (A)Many seek the ruler’s [a]favor,
But justice for man comes from the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 29:26 Lit. face

26 Many seek an audience with a ruler,(A)
    but it is from the Lord that one gets justice.(B)

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