38Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
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I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Shall 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?
For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
But 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.
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 37-41)That we may be entitled to the comforts administered to the afflicted in the Lam. 3:21-36, and may taste the sweetness of them, we have here the duties of an afflicted state prescribed to us, in the performance of which we may expect those comforts. I. We must see and acknowledge the hand of God in all the calamities that befal us at any time, whether personal or public, Lam. 3:37 , 38 . This is h…
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