Job 31
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| 1 | I made couenaunt with myn iyen, that Y schulde not thenke of a virgyn. |
| 2 | For what part schulde God aboue haue in me, and eritage Almyyti God of hiye thingis? |
| 3 | Whether perdicioun is not to a wickid man, and alienacioun of God is to men worchynge wickidnesse? |
| 4 | Whether he biholdith not my weies, and noumbrith alle my goyngis? |
| 5 | If Y yede in vanyte, and my foot hastide in gile, |
| 6 | God weie me in a iust balaunce, and knowe my symplenesse. |
| 7 | If my step bowide fro the weie; if myn iye suede myn herte, and a spotte cleuede to myn hondis; |
| 8 | sowe Y, and another ete, and my generacioun be drawun out bi the root. |
| 9 | If myn herte was disseyued on a womman, and if Y settide aspies at the dore of my frend; my wijf be the hoore of anothir man, |
| 10 | and othir men be bowid doun on hir. |
| 11 | For this is vnleueful, and the moost wickidnesse. |
| 12 | Fier is deourynge `til to wastyng, and drawynge vp bi the roote alle generaciouns. |
| 13 | If Y dispiside to take doom with my seruaunt and myn hand mayde, whanne thei stryueden ayens me. |
| 14 | What sotheli schal Y do, whanne God schal rise to deme? and whanne he schal axe, what schal Y answere to hym? |
| 15 | Whether he, that wrouyte also hym, made not me in the wombe, and o God formede me in the wombe? |
| 16 | If Y denyede to pore men that, that thei wolden, and if Y made the iyen of a wydewe to abide; |
| 17 | if Y aloone eet my mussel, and a faderles child eet not therof; |
| 18 | for merciful doyng encreesside with me fro my yong childhed, and yede out of my modris wombe with me; |
| 19 | if Y dispiside a man passynge forth, for he hadde not a cloth, and a pore man with out hilyng; |
| 20 | if hise sidis blessiden not me, and was not maad hoot of the fleeces of my scheep; |
| 21 | if Y reiside myn hond on a fadirles child, yhe, whanne Y siy me the hiyere in the yate; |
| 22 | my schuldre falle fro his ioynt, and myn arm with hise boonys be al to-brokun. |
| 23 | For euere Y dredde God, as wawis wexynge gret on me; and `Y myyte not bere his birthun. |
| 24 | If Y gesside gold my strengthe, and if Y seide to purid gold, Thou art my trist; |
| 25 | if Y was glad on my many ritchessis, and for myn hond foond ful many thingis; |
| 26 | if Y siy the sunne, whanne it schynede, and the moone goynge clereli; |
| 27 | and if myn herte was glad in priuyte, and if Y kisside myn hond with my mouth; |
| 28 | which is the moost wickidnesse, and deniyng ayens hiyeste God; |
| 29 | if Y hadde ioye at the fallyng of hym, that hatide me, and if Y ioide fulli, that yuel hadde founde hym; |
| 30 | for Y yaf not my throte to do synne, that Y schulde asaile and curse his soule; |
| 31 | if the men of my tabernacle seiden not, Who yyueth, that we be fillid of hise fleischis? a pilgryme dwellide not with outforth; |
| 32 | my dore was opyn to a weiegoere; |
| 33 | if Y as man hidde my synne, and helide my wickidnesse in my bosum; |
| 34 | if Y dredde at ful greet multitude, and if dispisyng of neyyboris made me aferd; and not more Y was stille, and yede not out of the dore; |
| 35 | who yyueth an helpere to me, that Almyyti God here my desire? that he that demeth, |
| 36 | write a book, that Y bere it in my schuldre, and cumpasse it as a coroun to me? |
| 37 | Bi alle my degrees Y schal pronounce it, and Y schal as offre it to the prynce. |
| 38 | If my lond crieth ayens me, and hise forewis wepen with it; |
| 39 | if Y eet fruytis therof with out money, and Y turmentide the soule of erthetileris of it; |
| 40 | a brere growe to me for wheete, and a thorn for barli. |