Job 1:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he said, "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD."

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  • Eccl 5:15 : 15 As he came from his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor which he may carry away in his hand.
  • Eph 5:20 : 20 Giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
  • 1 Thess 5:18 : 18 In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
  • 1 Tim 6:7 : 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
  • Job 2:10 : 10 But he said to her, You speak as one of the foolish women speaks. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
  • 1 Sam 2:7 : 7 The LORD makes poor and makes rich: he brings low and lifts up.
  • Jas 1:17 : 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
  • Matt 20:15 : 15 Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with my own? Is your eye evil, because I am good?
  • Gen 3:19 : 19 In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for dust you are, and to dust you shall return.
  • Eccl 5:19 : 19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, to receive his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.
  • Eccl 12:7 : 7 Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
  • Ps 49:17 : 17 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
  • Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create calamity: I the LORD do all these things.
  • Lam 3:38 : 38 Does not both calamity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
  • Amos 3:6 : 6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? Shall there be calamity in a city, and the LORD has not brought it?
  • Ps 89:38-52 : 38 But you have cast off and abhorred, you have been furious with your anointed. 39 You have made void the covenant of your servant; you have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground. 40 You have broken down all his hedges; you have brought his strongholds to ruin. 41 All who pass by the way plunder him; he is a reproach to his neighbors. 42 You have set up the right hand of his adversaries; you have made all his enemies rejoice. 43 You have also turned the edge of his sword, and have not sustained him in the battle. 44 You have made his glory to cease, and cast his throne down to the ground. 45 The days of his youth you have shortened; you have covered him with shame. Selah. 46 How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Shall your wrath burn like fire? 47 Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain? 48 What man can live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of the grave? Selah. 49 Lord, where are your former lovingkindnesses, which you swore to David in your truth? 50 Remember, Lord, the reproach of your servants; how I bear in my bosom the reproach of all the mighty people; 51 With which your enemies have reproached, O LORD, with which they have reproached the footsteps of your anointed. 52 Blessed be the LORD forevermore. Amen and Amen.
  • Isa 24:15 : 15 Therefore glorify the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
  • Isa 42:24 : 24 Who gave Jacob for a plunder, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
  • Gen 30:2 : 2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
  • Gen 45:5 : 5 Now do not be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.
  • Ps 34:1 : 1 I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
  • Ps 39:9 : 9 I was silent, and did not open my mouth, because you did it.
  • 1 Sam 3:18 : 18 And Samuel told him everything, and hid nothing from him. 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 look on my affliction, and that the LORD will repay me good for his cursing this day.
  • 1 Kgs 12:15 : 15 Therefore the king did not listen to the people, for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform His word, which the LORD spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
  • 2 Kgs 20:19 : 19 Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which you have spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth are in my days?
  • Job 1:11 : 11 But now, stretch out Your hand and touch all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face."
  • Acts 4:28 : 28 To do whatever Your hand and Your purpose determined before to be done.

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