Job 1

Which worship songs are based on Job 1?

  1. EAST SAINT BOOPIE — Torey D'Shaun (2024) Job 1:9-12

    The depiction of the devil asking God to end the artist's life recalls Satan seeking divine permission to test and afflict Job, while God places limits on what Satan may do.

  2. Rescue — Jordan St. Cyr (2023) Job 1:20-22

    The song explicitly invokes Job as the model for desperate prayer amid overwhelming suffering. Job is depicted both collapsing before God after catastrophic loss and crying to God during his prolonged affliction.

  3. I'm Still Yours — Kutless (2009) Job 1:20-21

    The chorus closely adapts Job’s acknowledgment that God both gives and takes away. Its question about continuing to worship after devastating loss also directly reflects Job’s response to losing his children and possessions.

  4. Kingdom Comes — Sara Groves (2025) Job 1:20-21

    Choosing to honor God's name while overwhelmed by sorrow recalls Job's worshipful response immediately after devastating loss.

  5. Sovereign God (feat. Taylor Butler) — Todd Galberth & Taylor Butler (2025) Job 1:20-21

    The repeated blessing of God's name amid brokenness and chaos directly recalls Job's worship after catastrophic loss. The surrounding contrasts reinforce the passage's distinctive posture of honoring God in suffering.

  6. Bring Him Home — David Phelps (2012) Job 1:21

    The paired acknowledgment of God's power to give and take echoes Job's declaration after his losses. The song adapts that acknowledgment into a plea for a young man's survival rather than a response to an accomplished loss.

  7. In the Dust — Brandon Heath (2012) Job 1:21

    The second verse's acknowledgment of God's authority to reclaim earthly possessions closely adapts Job's declaration that the Lord both gives and takes away. The surrounding emphasis on mortality and impermanent ownership reinforces the connection.

  8. Hills and Valleys (The Valleys version) — Tauren Wells (2017) Job 1:21

    The song repeats Job’s confession that God is sovereign over both receiving and losing blessings, applying it to every joy and pain.

  9. Stronger — Mavis Staples (2019) Job 1:21

    The bridge closely reproduces Job's declaration that the Lord both gives and takes away, invoking his response to catastrophic loss and divine sovereignty.

  10. I Think He Is — Rita Springer (2024) Job 1:21

    The description of God as both giving and taking away directly adopts Job’s response after suffering devastating losses.

  11. God's Up to Something — Jason Crabb (2013) Job 1:21

    The second verse closely adapts Job’s declaration that God both gives and takes away. This unmistakable reference introduces divine sovereignty into the song’s portrayal of devastating loss.

  12. I Just Love You - Live — Gateway Worship (2022) Job 1:21

    The declaration that God may give or take away while remaining worthy closely follows Job's response after losing his children and possessions.

  13. Life — Florida Georgia Line (2022) Job 1:21

    The song closely restates Job’s acknowledgment that the Lord is sovereign over both what is received and what is lost, applying that confession to the death of the singer’s father.

  14. Better — Jeremy Camp (2024) Job 1:21

    The bridge echoes Job's response after devastating loss, acknowledging God's authority both to bestow blessings and to remove them while maintaining faithful surrender.

  15. The Wrong Things — Rush of Fools (2011) Job 1:21

    The second verse closely adapts Job's acknowledgment that God both grants and removes what a person possesses. The song applies that acknowledgment to surrender and dependence on God rather than retelling Job's losses.

  16. Faithful — Steven Curtis Chapman (2009) Job 1:21

    The repeated pairing of God's giving and taking away closely adapts Job's response to catastrophic loss. Continued worship despite bereavement reinforces this specific connection.

  17. The Difference - Live — Hillsong Worship (2011) Job 1:21

    The expanded chorus closely adapts Job’s acknowledgment that God both gives and takes away. Its accompanying commitment to follow God preserves the passage’s posture of faithfulness amid loss.

  18. I Just Love You - Spontaneous / Live — Gateway Worship (2023) Job 1:21

    The commitment to bless God whether he gives or takes away closely follows Job's response after the loss of his children and possessions.

Job 1 (King James Version)

1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

2 And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.

3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men of the east.

4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about, that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their hearts. Thus did Job continually.

6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

8 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?

9 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought?

10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.

12 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.

13 And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:

14 And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

15 And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

16 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

17 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

18 While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:

19 And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

21 And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

22 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.