Lamentations 3:38
Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
That both adversity (misfortune) and good (prosperity, happiness) proceed?
Isaiah 45:7
The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing peace and creating disaster;
I am the Lord who does all these things.
Job 2:10
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the [spiritually] foolish women speaks [ignorant and oblivious to God’s will]. Shall we indeed accept [only] good from God and not [also] accept adversity and disaster?” In [spite of] all this Job did not sin with [words from] his lips.
Amos 3:6
If a trumpet is blown in a city [warning of danger] will not the people tremble?
If a disaster or misfortune occurs in a city has not the Lord caused it?
Psalm 75:7
But God is the Judge;
He puts down one and lifts up another.
Proverbs 29:26
Many seek the ruler’s favor,
But justice for man comes from the Lord.
Jeremiah 32:42
For thus says the Lord, ‘Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I am going to bring on them all the good that I am promising them.
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But God is the Judge;
He puts down one and lifts up another.
Many seek the ruler’s favor,
But justice for man comes from the Lord.
The One forming light and creating darkness,
Causing peace and creating disaster;
I am the Lord who does all these things.
If a trumpet is blown in a city [warning of danger] will not the people tremble?
If a disaster or misfortune occurs in a city has not the Lord caused it?