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37 Who can command, and it happens,
    without the Lord having ordered it?
38 Do not both good and evil things proceed
    from the mouth of the Most High?
39 Why should anyone living complain,
    any mortal, about being punished for sin?

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37 Who can speak and have it happen
    if the Lord has not decreed it?(A)
38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High
    that both calamities and good things come?(B)
39 Why should the living complain
    when punished for their sins?(C)

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