The Providence of God is Exercised in Ordaining the Conditions and Circumstances of Men

The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.

For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,

…but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.