Job’s Lament

Lyrics

Man who is born of a woman Flowers and then fades away He flees like a shadow at sunset In a lifetime as short as the day And there's hope for a stump that is severed Though its root grows old in the earth At the first scent of water, it wakens And branches come out in new birth But man, he lies down, and where is he? The mourners, they grieve and they weep But from then 'til the end of the ages He will not awake from his sleep But oh! That my pain would be written With lead and a steel-pointed pen Forever engraved into granite That my words would endure to the end And though the cry of my heart goes unanswered When the breath flees away from these bones In my grave I will wait in this knowledge In my flesh I will see You alone Yes, I know I shall see God my Savior I will look on Him just as He is And at last, we will stand here together For I know my Redeemer lives Now my days, they go by like a runner Like ships driven hard by the wind Like an eagle that swoops on its quarry They rush to my death at the end Though I wash me in crystal clear water Though I cleanse all my fingers with lye In the fierce holy light of Your presence My uncleanness will stink to the sky Turn away, then, Your gaze and Your terror 'Til I go to the darkness unseen For You're not like a man I can answer And there's no one to stand in between No, there's no one, no one to stand in between But oh! That my pain would be written With lead and a steel-pointed pen Forever engraved into granite That my words would endure to the end And though the cry of my heart goes unanswered When the breath flees away from these bones In my grave I will wait in this knowledge In my flesh I will see You alone Yes, I know I shall see God my Savior I will look on Him just as He is And at last, we will stand here together For I know my Redeemer lives Yes, I know my Redeemer lives Man who is born of a woman Flowers and then fades away He flees like a shadow at sunset In a lifetime as short as the day