saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to ca
For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.
Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no cha
“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this
For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.
before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were u
Of David, when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, so that the king drove him away. I will bless the LORD at all
Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands of the sea.
They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives th
So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the LORD,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good
If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had s
Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”
But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Will there not at lea
Furthermore, God has given riches and wealth to every man, and He has enabled him to enjoy them, to accept his lot, and
But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”
Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.