Why dost thou this affliction send,
Why with a feeble worm contend?
Unneeded pain thou canst not give,
Or causelesly thy children grieve:
Father, in kind compassion shew,
What means this providential blow:
O may I here thy mercy see,
And all the good design’d for me.
Why dost Thou this affiiction send
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.”—[Job] x. 2. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 240.
Publishing: Public Domain