Sikorski
At the Verbier Festival on 26 July 2009, the chamber music work ‘Hiobs Klage’ for violin and piano by Lera Auerbach was premiered by Dmitry Sitkovetsky and the author herself at the piano. In this work, the composer and poet Lera Auerbach dedicates herself to the biblical figure of Hiob, who, haunted by misfortune, begins to doubt his faith in God. As the basis Auerbach based her work on her own poem entitled ‘Job's Lament’.
Job’s Lament
When all is lost - I am fulfilled.
In losing - I am gaining sight.
There is no wrong. There is no right.
My flesh is peeling off - the kiss of God.
I’m the chosen one. What does it mean?
And why this glorious wrath of God?
I’ve lost my home, my pride, my wife.
I must be fortunate - I own nothing.
Only my faith.
Only my God.
Only myself.
I no longer ask you, ‘Why?’
I only hope you know best.
I lie here dying, my children are dead.
No longer do I question your motives.
Why ask for answers,
when there are questions?
Why pray for less
while welcoming death?
My eyesight grows dim
and finally I see:
there can be no answers,
there shall never be answers.
And there is no fear.
There is nothing to fear.
There is nothing, nothing,
nothing to fear.
There is nothing. (Lera Auerbach)