⁶ For affliction doesn't come forth from the dust, Neither does trouble spring out of the ground;

²⁷ Were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, Lest they should say, Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.

⁹ Behold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth-shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance that happened to us."

²⁹ When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? Alike whether to a nation, or to a man:

⁷ For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

⁷ I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Yahweh, who does all these things.

³⁸ Doesn't evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?

⁴ They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

⁶ Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, Without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, And Yahweh hasn't done it?

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