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Job 3:1-26

Let the Day Perish

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Let the Day Perish

Job 3:1-26

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This song belongs to the Job collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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[Verse 1] Job finally opens his mouth and curses the day of his birth. Cloud, death-shadow, and blackness are summoned over it. He imagines that night barren and without any joyful voice. Its twilight stars are to darken while dawn never arrives. [Pre-Chorus] No answer came to quiet every fear, Only the weight of all that had drawn near. [Chorus] Let the Day Perish, carry this grief through night, Tears have weight beneath the fading light. Truth still speaks when comfort has grown thin, And faith keeps breathing where the wounds begin. [Verse 2] He imagines resting beside kings and counsellors who built desolate monuments. Princes who filled houses with gold and silver would share that stillness. Job wishes he had been hidden like an untimely birth that never saw light. Prisoners no longer hear the oppressor, and servant and master become alike. [Bridge] They search for death more intensely than hidden treasure. Job describes his own path as hidden and hedged in. Sighing replaces food, and his cries pour out like water. The fear he dreaded has arrived, leaving no safety, rest, or quiet. [Final Chorus] Let the Day Perish, carry this grief through night, Tears have weight beneath the fading light. Truth still speaks when comfort has grown thin, And faith keeps breathing when the night grows thin. [Outro] The night remained, but truth remained as well. Not every wound was given words to tell.

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Job 3: Job curses the day, not God

After seven days of silence, Job finally gives grief a voice. He does not curse God. He curses the day of his birth and imagines that date erased from light, stars, calendar, and memory. The impossible wish turns creation backward because his present anguish makes his own beginning seem unbearable. He then imagines death as release from rank, labour, oppression, and command, a place where kings, prisoners, servants, and the exhausted lie beyond the structures that govern ordinary life. The lament broadens into a question about why life continues when a sufferer longs for its end. The hedge that Satan described as protection now feels to Job like confinement because his path cannot be seen. He closes not with explanation but with bodily grief: sighing before food, roaring like water, no safety, no quiet, no rest. Trouble has arrived before the sentence can settle.

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