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Job 1:21 - The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord

In the KJV:   “...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 .”   In Irish (Gaelic) it conforms to the common English translation: “Tarrnocht a tháinig mé as broinn mo mháthar, Agus tarrnocht a fhillfidh mé inti arís. An Tiarna a bhronn orm, agus an Tiarna a rug uaim.  Moladh le hainm an Tiarna.” These conform to the Vulgate (although there is a footnote for a version which conforms to the Septuagint): ...nudus egressus sum de utero matris meae et nudus revertar illuc.  Dominus dedit Dominus abstulit; sit nomen Domini benedictum. An English speaker can read most of that Latin without knowing any Latin! The Septuagint has another sentence in the middle (as it seemed good to the Lord, so it came to pass). ... Αὐτὸς γυμνὸς ἐξῆλθον ἐκ κοιλίας μητρός μου· γυμνὸς καὶ ἀπελεύσομαι ἐκεῖ. ὁ κύριος ἔδωκεν, ὁ κύριος ἀφείλατο· ὡς τῷ κυρίῳ ἔδοξεν, οὕτως ἐγένετο· εἴη τὸ ὄνομα Κυρίου εὐλογημέ