Job 9
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| 1 | Joob answeride, and seide, Verili Y woot, that it is so, |
| 2 | and that a man comparisound to God schal not be maad iust. |
| 3 | If he wole stryue with God, he may not answere to God oon for a thousynde. |
| 4 | He is wiys in herte, and strong in myyt; who ayenstood hym, and hadde pees? |
| 5 | Which bar hillis fro o place to anothir, and thei wisten not; whiche he distriede in his strong veniaunce. |
| 6 | Which stirith the erthe fro his place, and the pilers therof schulen `be schakun togidere. |
| 7 | Which comaundith to the sunne, and it risith not; and he closith the sterris, as vndur a signet. |
| 8 | Which aloone stretchith forth heuenes, and goith on the wawis of the see. |
| 9 | Which makith Ariture, and Orionas, and Hiadas, `that is, seuene sterris, and the innere thingis of the south. |
| 10 | Which makith grete thingis, and that moun not be souyt out, and wondurful thingis, of whiche is noon noumbre. |
| 11 | If he cometh to me, `that is, bi his grace, Y schal not se hym; if he goith awey, `that is, in withdrawynge his grace, Y schal not vndurstonde. |
| 12 | If he axith sodeynli, who schal answere to hym? ethir who may seie to hym, Whi doist thou so? |
| 13 | `God is he, whos wraththe no man may withstonde; and vndur whom thei ben bowid, that beren the world. |
| 14 | Hou greet am Y, that Y answere to hym, and speke bi my wordis with hym? |
| 15 | Which also schal not answere, thouy Y haue ony thing iust; but Y schal biseche my iuge. |
| 16 | And whanne he hath herd me inwardli clepynge, Y bileue not, that he hath herd my vois. |
| 17 | For in a whirlewynd he schal al to-breke me, and he schal multiplie my woundis, yhe, without cause. |
| 18 | He grauntith not, that my spirit haue reste, and he fillith me with bittirnesses. |
| 19 | If strengthe is souyt, `he is moost strong; if equyte of doom is souyt, no man dar yelde witnessynge for me. |
| 20 | If Y wole make me iust, my mouth schal dampne me; if Y schal schewe me innocent, he schal preue me a schrewe. |
| 21 | Yhe, thouy Y am symple, my soule schal not knowe this same thing; and it schal anoye me of my lijf. |
| 22 | O thing is, which Y spak, he schal waste `bi deth also the innocent and wickid man. |
| 23 | If he betith, sle he onys, and leiye he not of the peynes of innocent men. |
| 24 | The erthe is youun in to the hondis of the wickid; he hilith the face of iugis; that if he is not, who therfor is? |
| 25 | Mi daies weren swiftere than a corour; thei fledden, and sien not good. |
| 26 | Thei passiden as schippis berynge applis, as an egle fleynge to mete. |
| 27 | Whanne Y seie, Y schal not speke so; Y chaunge my face, and Y am turmentid with sorewe. |
| 28 | Y drede alle my werkis, witynge that thou `woldist not spare the trespassour. |
| 29 | Sotheli if Y am also thus wickid, whi haue Y trauelid in veyn? |
| 30 | Thouy Y am waischun as with watris of snow, and thouy myn hondis schynen as moost cleene, |
| 31 | netheles thou schalt dippe me in filthis, and my clothis, `that is, werkis, schulen holde me abhomynable. |
| 32 | Trewli Y schal not answere a man, which is lijk me; nether that may be herd euenli with me in doom. |
| 33 | `Noon is, that may repreue euer eithir, and sette his hond in bothe. |
| 34 | Do he awei his yerde fro me, and his drede make not me aferd. |
| 35 | Y schal speke, and Y schal not drede hym; for Y may not answere dredynge. |