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 Ippolito Baccusi SSSATB or AAATTB Giovanni Croce AAATTTBB Claudin de Sermisy SATB Hans Leo Hassler a 6 SSATTB a 8 SSAATTTB Ferdinand di Lasso ATTBB

Orlando di Lasso SATTB Leonhard Lechner SAATTB and SSATTB Costanzo Porta AATB Andreas de Silva ATB Philippe Verdelot ATTBarB Gioseffo Zarlino ATTTB

Other settings possibly not included in the manual list above

• Thomas Mancinus — Si bona suscepimus
• Jacobus Clemens non Papa — Si bona suscepimus

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. Translation by Edward Tambling