TSK · Job 12:9

God said,“Let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.”

The LORD impoverishes and makes wealthy; he humbles and he exalts.

Job Pleads His Cause to God“Indeed, my eyes have seen all this, my ears have heard and understood it.

I will do this so people will observe and recognize, so they will pay attention and understand that the LORD’s power has accomplished this, and that the Holy One of Israel has brought it into being.”

As for you, O king, the most high God bestowed on your father Nebuchadnezzar a kingdom, greatness, honor, and majesty.

After the city secretary quieted the crowd, he said,“Men of Ephesus, what person is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the keeper of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image that fell from heaven?

Listen, my dear brothers and sisters! Did not God choose the poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him?