"Come all you worthy..."

The Oxford Book of Carols (1928) contains 197 carols. Many are for the Christmas season, but there are some for every season of the Christian year. Percy Dearmer edited the words and Martin Shaw and Ralph Vaughan Williams the music. From Percy Dearmer's Preface:

Carols are songs with a religious impulse that are simple, hilarious, popular, and modern. They are generally spontaneous and direct in expression, and their simplicity of form causes them sometimes to ramble on like a ballad. Carol literature and music are rich in true folk-poetry and remain fresh and buoyant even when the subject is a grave one....

I got my copy sometime in the 1970s. The book is still in print. This is a carol called "Job."

Come all you worthy Christian men, That dwell upon this land, Don't spend your time in rioting: Remember you are but man. Be watchful for your latter end; Be ready for your call. There are many changes in this world; Some rise while others fall.	Come all you worthy Christian men, That are so very poor, Remember how poor Lazarus Lay at the rich man's door, While begging of the crumbs of bread That from his table fell. The Scriptures do inform us all That in heaven he doth dwell.
Now Job he was a patient man, The richest in the East; When he was brought to poverty, His sorrows soon increased. He bore them all most patiently; From sin he did refrain; He always trusted in the Lord; He soon got rich again.	The time, alas, it soon will come When parted we shall be; But all the difference it will make Is in joy and misery. And we must give a strict account Of great as well as small: Believe me now, dear Christian friends That God will judge us all