Lyrics · Job
Neither Is There Any Daysman
Job 8:1-10:22
[Verse 1]
Bildad rebukes Job's words as a strong wind.
Bildad interprets the death of Job's children as the result of their transgression.
The wisdom of former generations is offered because present life is only a shadow.
Bildad concludes that God will not cast away the perfect and will yet fill Job's mouth with laughter.
[Pre-Chorus]
The speeches rose, each certain of its claim,
But certainty alone could not explain.
[Chorus]
Neither Is There Any Daysman, let the question open wide,
Human answers fail when pride becomes the guide.
Wisdom cannot be purchased, mined, or seized,
It comes from God, before whom striving ceased.
[Verse 2]
He maintains his integrity yet despises his life and observes calamity overtaking perfect and wicked alike.
His days rush like a courier, swift ships.
Even imagined cleansing cannot remove his fear of condemnation.
He longs for a daysman who could lay a hand upon both parties and remove terror.
[Bridge]
He questions whether God despises the work of his own hands or sees as a mortal sees.
Job recalls being fashioned like clay and clothed with skin, flesh, bones.
He feels continually marked for sin and surrounded by renewed witnesses and war.
Job again asks why he was born and seeks a little comfort before entering the land of darkness.
[Final Chorus]
Neither Is There Any Daysman, let the question open wide,
Human answers fail when pride becomes the guide.
Wisdom cannot be purchased, mined, or seized,
It comes from God, before whom human pride must cease.
[Outro]
The question stayed when every speech was through.
Wisdom began where human certainty withdrew.

