Ecclesiastes 7:14
When things are going well for you, be happy, and when things are not going well for you, remember that God is the one who causes good things to happen and who also causes disasters.
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Deuteronomy 28:47“Because Yahweh blessed you abundantly in many ways, you should have served him very joyfully [DOU], but you did not do that.
1 Kings 17:17Some time later, the woman’s son became sick. He continued to get worse, and finally he died.
Job 2:10But Job replied, “You talk like people who do not know God talk. ◄Should we accept only the good things that God does for us?/We should not accept only the good things that God does for us.► [RHQ] We should also accept bad things.” So in spite of all these things that happened to Job, he did not say anything against God.
Psalms 30:11But now you have healed me, and you have caused me to change from being sad to dancing joyfully. You have taken away the clothes that showed that I was very sad and you have given me clothes that showed that I was very joyful.
Psalms 94:12Yahweh, you are pleased with people who want you to discipline/correct them, those who want you to teach them your laws.
Ecclesiastes 3:4There is a time to cry, and there is a time to laugh. There is a time to mourn, and there is a time to dance joyfully.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 7:12-23
The Advantages of Wisdom. 11 Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun. 12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. 13 Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which he hath made crooked? 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider: God also hath set the one over against the other, to the end that man should find nothing after him.… Read the whole commentary →