Job 34
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| 1 | And Helyu pronounside, and spak also these thingis, |
| 2 | Wise men, here ye my wordis, and lerned men, herkne ye me; for the eere preueth wordis, |
| 3 | and the throte demeth metis bi taast. |
| 4 | Chese we doom to vs; and se we among vs, what is the betere. |
| 5 | For Job seide, Y am iust, and God hath distried my doom. |
| 6 | For whi lesynge is in demynge me, and myn arowe is violent with out ony synne. |
| 7 | Who is a man, as Joob is, that drynkith scornyng as watir? |
| 8 | that goith with men worchynge wickidnesse, and goith with vnfeithful men? |
| 9 | For he seide, A man schal not plese God, yhe, thouy he renneth with God. |
| 10 | Therfor ye men hertid, `that is, vndurstonde, here ye me; vnpite, `ethir cruelte, be fer fro God, and wickidnesse fro Almyyti God. |
| 11 | For he schal yelde the werk of man to hym; and bi the weies of ech man he schal restore to hym. |
| 12 | For verili God schal not condempne with out cause; nether Almyyti God schal distrie doom. |
| 13 | What othere man hath he ordeyned on the lond? ether whom hath he set on the world, which he made? |
| 14 | If God dressith his herte to hym, he schal drawe to hym silf his spirit and blast. |
| 15 | Ech fleisch schal faile togidere; `and a man schal turne ayen in to aisch. |
| 16 | Therfor if thou hast vndurstondyng, here thou that that is seid, and herkne the vois of my speche. |
| 17 | Whether he that loueth not doom may be maad hool? and hou condempnest thou so myche him, that is iust? |
| 18 | Which seith to the kyng, Thou art apostata; which clepith the duykis vnpitouse, `ethir vnfeithful. |
| 19 | `Which takith not the persoones of princes, nether knew a tyraunt, whanne he stryuede ayens a pore man; for alle men ben the werk of hise hondis. |
| 20 | Thei schulen die sudeynli, and at mydnyyt puplis schulen be troblid, `ethir schulen be bowid, as othere bookis han; and schulen passe, and schulen take `awei `a violent man with out hond. |
| 21 | For the iyen of God ben on the weies of men, and biholdith alle goyngis of hem. |
| 22 | No derknessis ben, and no schadewe of deeth is, that thei, that worchen wickidnesse, be hid there; |
| 23 | for it is `no more in the power of man, that he come to God in to doom. |
| 24 | God schal al to-breke many men and vnnoumbrable; and schal make othere men to stonde for hem. |
| 25 | For he knowith the werkis of hem; therfor he schal brynge yn niyt, and thei schulen be al to-brokun. |
| 26 | He smoot hem, as vnpitouse men, in the place of seinge men. |
| 27 | Whiche yeden awei fro hym bi `castyng afore, and nolden vndurstonde alle hise weies. |
| 28 | That thei schulden make the cry of a nedi man to come to hym, and that he schulde here the vois of pore men. |
| 29 | For whanne he grauntith pees, who is that condempneth? Sithen he hidith his cheer, who is that seeth hym? And on folkis and on alle men `he hath power `to do siche thingis. |
| 30 | Which makith `a man ypocrite to regne, for the synnes of the puple. |
| 31 | Therfor for Y haue spoke to God, also Y schal not forbede thee. |
| 32 | If Y erride, teche thou me; if Y spak wickidnesse, Y schal no more adde. |
| 33 | Whether God axith that wickidnesse of thee, for it displeside thee? For thou hast bigunne to speke, and not Y; that if thou knowist ony thing betere, speke thou. |
| 34 | Men vndurstondynge, speke to me; and a wise man, here me. |
| 35 | Forsothe Joob spak folili, and hise wordis sownen not techyng. |
| 36 | My fadir, be Joob preuede `til to the ende; ceesse thou not fro the man of wickidnesse, |
| 37 | `that addith blasfemye ouer hise synnes. Be he constreyned among vs in the meene tyme; and thanne bi hise wordis stire he God to the doom. |