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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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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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