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What does the Bible say about LUCK ?

The Oxford Dictionary defines “luck” as follows:

1. Success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions.

2. Chance considered as a force that causes good or bad things to happen.

All things that take place are under the umbrella of God’s Will.

The main question is, do things happen by chance? If they do, then one can speak of someone being lucky or unlucky. But if they do not happen by chance, then it is inappropriate to use those terms. Ecclesiastes 9:11-12 states, “I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favour to the learned;

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