Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
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?
For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them a
“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this
but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.
Many seek the ruler’s favor, but a man receives justice from the LORD.