Job 1:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

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  • Eccl 5:15 : 15 And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?
  • Eph 5:20 : 20 Giving praise at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
  • 1 Thess 5:18 : 18 In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.
  • 1 Tim 6:7 : 7 For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out;
  • Job 2:10 : 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.
  • 1 Sam 2:7 : 7 The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;
  • Jas 1:17 : 17 Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.
  • Eccl 5:19 : 19 He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
  • Ps 49:17 : 17 For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.
  • Isa 45:7 : 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.
  • Lam 3:38 : 38 Do not evil and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
  • Amos 3:6 : 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?
  • Ps 89:38-52 : 38 But you have put him away in disgust; you have been angry with the king of your selection. 39 You have made your agreement with your servant of no effect: you have had no respect for his crown, it has come down even to the earth. 40 All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction. 41 All those who come by take away his goods; he is laughed at by his neighbours. 42 You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him. 43 His sword is turned back; you have not been his support in the fight. 44 You have put an end to his glory: the seat of his kingdom has been levelled to the earth. 45 You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. (Selah.) 46 How long, O Lord, will you Keep yourself for ever from our eyes? how long will your wrath be burning like fire? 47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose? 48 What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.) 49 Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith? 50 Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart; 51 The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king. 52 Let the Lord be praised for ever. So be it, So be it.
  • Isa 24:15 : 15 Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.
  • Isa 42:24 : 24 Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.
  • Gen 30:2 : 2 But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?
  • Gen 45:5 : 5 Now do not be troubled or angry with yourselves for sending me away, because God sent me before you to be the saviour of your lives.
  • Ps 34:1 : 1 <Of David. When he made a change in his behaviour before Abimelech, who sent him away, and he went.> I will be blessing the Lord at all times; his praise will be ever in my mouth.
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.
  • 1 Sam 3:18 : 18 Then Samuel gave him an account of everything, keeping nothing back. And he said, It is the Lord; let him do what seems good to him.
  • 2 Sam 16:12 : 12 It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.
  • 1 Kgs 12:15 : 15 So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be effected.
  • 2 Kgs 20:19 : 19 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. Then he said, ... if in my time there is peace and righteousness?
  • Job 1:11 : 11 But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.
  • Acts 4:28 : 28 To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.

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