Job 1:20-21

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped, saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Job 1

7 songs meet this passage

  • “Feeling like Job when he lost his shit”

    Good Days · SZA

    resonates with Job 1:20-21

    She invokes Job's suffering directly; like him, she's wrestling with loss while trying to hold onto some form of faith or composure.

  • “I know the things he gives me, he can take away”

    Beautiful Things · Benson Boone

    resonates with Job 1:21

    This echoes Job's acknowledgment that God gives and takes away, though here it fuels dread rather than worship.

  • “praise the God who gives And takes away”

    Praise You In This Storm · Casting Crowns

    resonates with Job 1:21

    Directly echoes Job's posture of blessing God's name in both gain and loss, refusing to let circumstance dictate worship.

  • Hallelujah · Leonard Cohen

    resonates with Job 1:21

    Like Job's praise amid loss, the singer offers worship stripped of triumph or self-justification, praise as surrender rather than celebration.

  • Amarillo by Morning · George Strait

    resonates with Job 1:21

    Job's posture of naming loss plainly without bitterness toward God mirrors this rider's weary but unembittered recounting of what he's lost.

  • “Take the very breath you gave me”

    Don't Take the Girl · Tim McGraw

    resonates with Job 1:21

    In crisis he returns his very breath to the God who gave it, echoing Job's posture of surrendering everything back to the Giver.

  • “The Lord took her away from me”

    Last Kiss · Pearl Jam

    resonates with Job 1:21

    Job's words 'the Lord gives and the Lord takes away' mirror the narrator's instinct to locate his grief within God's sovereignty, even amid confusion and pain.