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 he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
• 1 Tim 6:7For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
• 1 Th 5:18In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
• Jas 1:17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
• Job 2:10But 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.
• Ps 49:17For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.
• Eph 5:20Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
• Eccl 12:7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
• 1 Sam 2:7The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.
• Isa 45:7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
• Gen 3:19In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
• Lam 3:38Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
• Matt 20:15Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?
• Ps 39:9I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it.
• Isa 42:24Who gave Jacob for a spoil, 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.
• Isa 24:15Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
• Acts 4:28For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
• Gen 45:5Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.
• Ps 34:1I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
• 1 Sam 3:18And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good.
• 2 Sam 16:12It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.
• Amos 3:6Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? shall there be evil in a city, and the LORD hath not done it?
• Job 1:11But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.
• Gen 30:2And Jacob’s anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God’s stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
• 2 Kgs 20:19Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?
• 1 Kgs 12:15Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
• Eccl 5:19Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
• Ps 89:38–52But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.

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