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Posted by ESC on March 03, 2005

In Reply to: Origin of 2 phrases posted by joyce on March 03, 2005

: Would like to know origin of/who said, God gives and God takes away; cry at a birth, laugh at a death.

: Thanks for the help.

Both are Biblical concepts. I couldn't find the exact passage for the second.

Job 1:21 (King James Version)
21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

Ecclesiastes 7
1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

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