Job 1:21

Bible in Basic English 1965

With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.

Cross References

Genesis 3:19

With the hard work of your hands you will get your bread till you go back to the earth from which you were taken: for dust you are and to the dust you will go back.

Genesis 30:2

But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?

Genesis 45:5

Now do not be troubled or angry with yourselves for sending me away, because God sent me before you to be the saviour of your lives.

2 Samuel 16:12

It may be that the Lord will take note of my wrongs, and give me back good in answer to his cursing of me today.

1 Kings 12:15

So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be effected.

2 Kings 20:19

Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. Then he said, (UNTRANSLATED TEXT) if in my time there is peace and righteousness?

Nehemiah 9:5

Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, Get up and give praise to the Lord your God for ever and ever. Praise be to your great name which is lifted up high over all blessing and praise.

Job 1:11

But now, put out your hand against all he has, and he will be cursing you to your face.

Job 2:10

And he said to her, You are talking like one of the foolish women. If we take the good God sends us, are we not to take the evil when it comes? In all this Job kept his lips from sin.

Job 9:12

If he puts out his hand to take, by whom may it be turned back? who may say to him, What are you doing?

Psalm 34:1

Of David. When he made a change in his behaviour before Abimelech, who sent him away, and he went. I will be blessing the Lord at all times; his praise will be ever in my mouth.

Psalm 34:2

My soul will say great things of the Lord: the poor in spirit will have knowledge of it and be glad.

Psalm 39:9

I was quiet, and kept my mouth shut; because you had done it.

Psalm 49:17

For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

Ecclesiastes 12:7

And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 5:19

Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.

Isaiah 24:15

Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.

Isaiah 42:24

Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.

Isaiah 45:7

I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.

Lamentations 3:38

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

Amos 3:6

If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?

Matthew 20:15

Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?

Acts 4:28

To do that which had been fixed before by your hand and your purpose.

Ephesians 5:20

Giving praise at all times for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;

1 Thessalonians 5:18

In everything give praise: for this is the purpose of God in Christ Jesus for you.

1 Timothy 6:7

For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out;

James 1:17

Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.

James 5:11

We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.

Ruth 1:21

I went out full, and the Lord has sent me back again with nothing; why do you give me the name Naomi, seeing that the Lord has given witness against me, and the Ruler of all has sent sorrow on me?

1 Samuel 2:7

The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;

1 Samuel 2:8

Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.

1 Samuel 3:18

Then Samuel gave him an account of everything, keeping nothing back. And he said, It is the Lord; let him do what seems good to him.