Job 22
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| 1 | Forsothe Eliphat Themanytes answeride, and seide, |
| 2 | Whether a man, yhe, whanne he is of perfit kunnyng, mai be comparisound to God? |
| 3 | What profitith it to God, if thou art iust? ethir what schalt thou yyue to hym, if thi lijf is without wem? |
| 4 | Whether he schal drede, and schal repreue thee, and schal come with thee in to doom, |
| 5 | and not for thi ful myche malice, and thi wickidnessis with out noumbre, `these peynes bifelden iustli to thee? |
| 6 | For thou hast take awei with out cause the wed of thi britheren; and hast spuylid nakid men of clothis. |
| 7 | Thou yauest not watir to the feynt man; and thou withdrowist breed fro the hungri man. |
| 8 | In the strengthe of thin arm thou haddist the lond in possessioun; and thou moost myyti heldist it. |
| 9 | Thou leftist widewis voide; and al to-brakist the schuldris of fadirles children. |
| 10 | Therfor thou art cumpassid with snaris; and sodeyn drede disturblith thee. |
| 11 | And thou gessidist, that thou schuldist not se derknessis; and that thou schuldist not be oppressid with the fersnesse of watris flowyng. |
| 12 | Whether thou thenkist, that God is hiyere than heuene, and is enhaunsid aboue the coppe of sterris? |
| 13 | And thou seist, What sotheli knowith God? and, He demeth as bi derknesse. |
| 14 | A cloude is his hidyng place, and he biholdith not oure thingis, and he `goith aboute the herris of heuene. |
| 15 | Whether thou coueitist to kepe the path of worldis, which wickid men han ofte go? |
| 16 | Whiche weren takun awei bifor her tyme, and the flood distriede the foundement of hem. |
| 17 | Whiche seiden to God, Go thou awei fro vs; and as if Almyyti God may do no thing, thei gessiden hym, |
| 18 | whanne he hadde fillid her housis with goodis; the sentence of whiche men be fer fro me. |
| 19 | Iust men schulen se, and schulen be glad; and an innocent man schal scorne hem. |
| 20 | Whether the reisyng of hem is not kit doun, and fier schal deuoure the relifs of hem? |
| 21 | Therfor assente thou to God, and haue thou pees; and bi these thingis thou schalt haue best fruytis. |
| 22 | Take thou the lawe of his mouth, and sette thou hise wordis in thin herte. |
| 23 | If thou turnest ayen to Almyyti God, thou schalt be bildid; and thou schalt make wickidnesse fer fro thi tabernacle. |
| 24 | He schal yyue a flynt for erthe, and goldun strondis for a flynt. |
| 25 | And Almyyti God schal be ayens thin enemyes; and siluer schal be gaderid togidere to thee. |
| 26 | Thanne on Almyyti God thou schalt flowe with delicis; and thou schalt reise thi face to God. |
| 27 | Thou schalt preye hym, and he schal here thee; and thou schalt yelde thi vowis. |
| 28 | Thou schalt deme a thing, and it schal come to thee; and lyyt schal schyne in thi weies. |
| 29 | For he that is mekid, schal be in glorie; and he that bowith doun hise iyen, schal be saued. |
| 30 | An innocent schal be saued; sotheli he schal be saued in the clennesse of hise hondis. |