Lamentations 3:38
Out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?
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Referenced Verses
- Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and create evil. I am Jehovah, that doeth all these things.
- Job 2:10 : 10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
- Amos 3:6 : 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?
- Jer 32:42 : 42 For thus saith Jehovah: Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
- Ps 75:7 : 7 But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.
- Prov 29:26 : 26 Many seek the ruler's favor; But a man's judgment [cometh] from Jehovah.
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36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
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11 Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet [water] and bitter?
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3 Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness?
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21 There shall no mischief happen to the righteous; But the wicked shall be filled with evil.
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2 For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?
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12 Yea, of a surety, God will not do wickedly, Neither will the Almighty pervert justice.
13 Who gave him a charge over the earth? Or who hath disposed the whole world?
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23 Who hath enjoined him his way? Or who can say, Thou hast wrought unrighteousness?
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3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise [and] to do good.
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35 The good man out of his good treasure bringeth forth good things: and the evil man out of his evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
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6 For affliction cometh not forth from the dust, Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;
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10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; His mouth shall not transgress in judgment.
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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?
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10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
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30 (Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);
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10 Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of understanding: Far be it from God, that he should do wickedness, And from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity.
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6 For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the south, [cometh] lifting up.
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13 Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;
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7 For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
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4 For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness: Evil shall not sojourn with thee.
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1 Then Jehovah answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said,
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4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.