Job 29
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| 1 | Also Joob addide, takynge his parable, and seide, |
| 2 | Who yyueth to me, that I be bisidis the elde monethis, bi the daies in whiche God kepte me? |
| 3 | Whanne his lanterne schynede on myn heed, and Y yede in derknessis at his liyt. |
| 4 | As Y was in the daies of my yongthe, whanne in priuete God was in my tabernacle. |
| 5 | Whanne Almyyti God was with me, and my children weren in my cumpas; |
| 6 | whanne Y waischide my feet in botere, and the stoon schedde out to me the stremes of oile; |
| 7 | whanne Y yede forth to the yate of the citee, and in the street thei maden redi a chaier to me. |
| 8 | Yonge men, `that is, wantoun, sien me, and weren hid, and elde men risynge vp stoden; |
| 9 | princes ceessiden to speke, and puttiden the fyngur on her mouth; |
| 10 | duykis refreyneden her vois, and her tunge cleuyde to her throte. |
| 11 | An eere herynge blesside me, and an iye seynge yeldide witnessyng to me; |
| 12 | for Y hadde delyueride a pore man criynge, and a fadirles child, that hadde noon helpere. |
| 13 | The blessyng of a man `to perische cam on me, and Y coumfortide the herte of a widewe. |
| 14 | Y was clothid with riytfulnesse; and Y clothide me as with a cloth, and with my `doom a diademe. |
| 15 | Y was iye `to a blynde man, and foot to a crokyd man. |
| 16 | Y was a fadir of pore men; and Y enqueride most diligentli the cause, which Y knew not. |
| 17 | Y al tobrak the grete teeth of the wickid man, and Y took awei prey fro hise teeth. |
| 18 | And Y seide, Y schal die in my nest; and as a palm tre Y schal multiplie daies. |
| 19 | My roote is openyde bisidis watris, and deew schal dwelle in my repyng. |
| 20 | My glorie schal euere be renulid, and my bouwe schal be astorid in myn hond. |
| 21 | Thei, that herden me, abiden my sentence; and thei weren ententif, and weren stille to my counsel. |
| 22 | Thei dursten no thing adde to my wordis; and my speche droppide on hem. |
| 23 | Thei abididen me as reyn; and thei openyden her mouth as to the softe reyn `comynge late. |
| 24 | If ony tyme Y leiyide to hem, thei bileueden not; and the liyt of my cheer felde not doun in to erthe. |
| 25 | If Y wolde go to hem, Y sat the firste; and whanne Y sat as kyng, while the oost stood aboute, netheles Y was comfortour of hem that morenyden. |