³⁸ Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

⁷ I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

¹⁰ And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.

⁶ If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?

⁴² For the Lord has said: As I have made all this great evil come on this people, so I will send on them all the good which I said about them.

⁷ But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.

²⁶ The approval of a ruler is desired by great numbers: but the decision in a man's cause comes from the Lord.