1Sa 2:7-8, Job 1:21 | ESV | STEP | The Lord makes poor and makes rich ; he brings low and he exalts .

1 Samuel 2:7-8

7 ^aThe Lord makes poor and makes rich;
^bhe brings low and he exalts.
8 ^cHe raises up the poor from the dust;
he lifts the needy from the ash heap
^dto make them sit with princes
and inherit a seat of honor.
^eFor the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s,
and on them he has set the world.

Job 1:21

21 And he said, ^f“Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I ^greturn. The Lord ^hgave, and the Lord has taken away; ⁱblessed be the name of the Lord.”