qSee 2 Kgs. 18:14-16
Job 2:10
10But he said to her, “You speak as one of the afoolish women would speak. bShall we receive good from God, and shall we not receive evil?” ▼▼Or disaster; also verse 11
dIn all this Job did not esin with his lips. Job 34:29
29When he is quiet, who can condemn?When he hides his face, who can behold him,
whether it be a nation or a man?—
Psalms 29:11
11May the Lord give fstrength to his people!May the Lord bless ▼ his people with hpeace!
Psalms 75:7
7but it is iGod who executes judgment,jputting down one and lifting up another.
Ecclesiastes 7:13-14
13Consider kthe work of God:lwho can make straight what he has made crooked?
14 mIn the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, nso that man may not find out anything that will be after him.
Isaiah 10:5-6
Judgment on Arrogant Assyria
5 Woe to Assyria, othe rod of my anger;the staff in their hands is my fury!
6Against a pgodless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take qspoil and seize plunder,
and to rtread them down like the mire of the streets.
Jeremiah 18:7-10
7If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will spluck up and break down and destroy it, 8and if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, tturns from its evil, uI will relent of the disaster that I intended to do to it. 9And if at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom that I will vbuild and plant it, 10and if it does evil in my sight, not listening to my voice, then I will relent of the good that I had intended to do to it.
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