Si bona suscepimus

General information

Responsory from the Office of the Dead. Source of text is Job 2:10 and Job 1:21

Settings by composers

Giovanni Matteo Asola AATTTTBB Giovanni Croce AAATTTBB Hans Leo Hassler a 6 SSATTB a 8 SSAATTTB Orlando di Lasso SATTB

Leonhard Lechner SAATTB Costanzo Porta AATB Andreas de Silva ATB Philippe Verdelot ATTBarB

Original text and translations

Latin text 2:10  Si bona suscepimus de manu Domini, mala autem quare non sustineamus? 1:21  Nudus egressus sum de utero matris mei, et nudus revertar illuc. Dominus dedit, Dominus abstulit; sicut Domino placuit, ita factum est: sit nomen Domini benedictum.

English translation 2:10  If we have received good things from the hand of the Lord, why should we not endure bad things? 1:21  Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there. The Lord has given, the Lord has taken away: as it has pleased the Lord, so is it done: blessed be the name of the Lord. tr. by Edward Tambling