⁶ For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

²⁷ Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge amiss, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, And Jehovah hath not done all this.

⁹ And see; if it goeth up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.

²⁹ When he giveth quietness, who then can condemn? And when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? Alike whether `it be done' unto a nation, or unto a man:

⁷ For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled.

⁷ I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.

³⁸ Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?

⁴ They speak `vain' words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

⁶ Shall the trumpet be blown in a city, and the people not be afraid? shall evil befall a city, and Jehovah hath not done it?

¹⁵ looking carefully lest `there be' any man that falleth short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble `you', and thereby the many be defiled;