Job 1:21

Job confesses that he came naked and will leave naked, blessing the LORD who gives and takes away. He worships God amid total loss.

Cross-references · 28

• Eccl 5:15As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
• 1 Tim 6:7For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.
• 1 Th 5:18Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
• Jas 1:17Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
• Job 2:10“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
• Ps 49:17For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.
• Eph 5:20always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Eccl 12:7before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
• 1 Sam 2:7The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
• Isa 45:7I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.
• Gen 3:19By the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the ground—because out of it were you taken. For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”
• Lam 3:38Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?
• Matt 20:15Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
• Ps 39:9I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.
• Isa 42:24Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel to the plunderers? Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned? They were unwilling to walk in His ways, and they would not obey His law.
• Isa 24:15Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands of the sea.
• Acts 4:28They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
• Gen 45:5And now, do not be distressed or angry with yourselves that you sold me into this place, because it was to save lives that God sent me before you.
• Ps 34:1Of David, when he pretended to be insane before Abimelech, so that the king drove him away. I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise will always be on my lips.
• 1 Sam 3:18So Samuel told him everything and did not hide a thing from him. “He is the LORD,” replied Eli. “Let Him do what is good in His eyes.”
• 2 Sam 16:12Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”
• Amos 3:6If a ram’s horn sounds in a city, do the people not tremble? If calamity comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it?
• Job 1:11But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
• Gen 30:2Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”
• 2 Kgs 20:19But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Will there not at least be peace and security in my lifetime?”
• 1 Kgs 12:15So the king did not listen to the people, and indeed this turn of events was from the LORD, to fulfill the word He had spoken to Jeroboam son of Nebat through Ahijah the Shilonite.
• Eccl 5:19Furthermore, God has given riches and wealth to every man, and He has enabled him to enjoy them, to accept his lot, and to rejoice in his labor. This is a gift from God.
• Ps 89:38–52Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.

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