Job 1:21

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Job 1:19–22 · Berean Standard Bible

19 when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on the young people and they are dead, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”

20 Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

21 saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

22 In all this, Job did not sin or charge God with wrongdoing.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 3:19

By 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.”

Psalms 49:17

For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As 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.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

before the dust returns to the ground from which it came and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

1 Timothy 6:7

For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.

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.

Genesis 30:2

Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”

Ecclesiastes 5:19

Furthermore, 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.

Lamentations 3:38

Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?

James 1:17

Every 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.

Genesis 45:5

And 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.

2 Samuel 16:12

Perhaps the LORD will see my affliction and repay me with good for the cursing I receive today.”

1 Kings 12:15

So 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.

Psalms 39:9

I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

Isaiah 42:24

Who 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.

Isaiah 45:7

I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

Amos 3:6

If 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?

Matthew 20:15

Do I not have the right to do as I please with what is mine? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

Acts 4:28

They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.

Job 1:11

But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

1 Samuel 3:18

So 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 Kings 20:19

But 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?”

Psalms 34:1

I will bless the LORD at all times; His praise will always be on my lips.

Psalms 89:38

Now, however, You have spurned and rejected him; You are enraged by Your anointed one.

Psalms 89:39

You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.

Psalms 89:40

You have broken down all his walls; You have reduced his strongholds to rubble.

Psalms 89:41

All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

Psalms 89:42

You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.

Psalms 89:43

You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.

Psalms 89:44

You have ended his splendor and cast his throne to the ground.

Psalms 89:45

You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah

Psalms 89:46

How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?

Psalms 89:47

Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

Psalms 89:48

What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah

Psalms 89:49

Where, O Lord, is Your loving devotion of old, which You faithfully swore to David?

Psalms 89:50

Remember, O Lord, the reproach of Your servants, which I bear in my heart from so many people—

Psalms 89:51

how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!

Psalms 89:52

Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and amen.

Isaiah 24:15

Therefore glorify the LORD in the east. Extol the name of the LORD, the God of Israel in the islands of the sea.

Ephesians 5:20

always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.