Wycliffe - Job - 15

15:1  Forsothe Eliphat Themanytes answeride, and seide,

15:2  Whether a wise man schal answere, as spekynge ayens the wynd, and schal fille his stomac with brennyng, `that is, ire?

15:3  For thou repreuest hym bi wordis, which is not lijk thee, and thou spekist that, that spedith not to thee.

15:4  As myche as is in thee, thou hast avoidid drede; and thou hast take awey preyeris bifor God.

15:5  For wickidnesse hath tauyt thi mouth, and thou suest the tunge of blasfemeris.

15:6  Thi tunge, and not Y, schal condempne thee, and thi lippis schulen answere thee.

15:7  Whether thou art borun the firste man, and art formed bifor alle little hillis?

15:8  Whether thou herdist the counsel of God, and his wisdom is lower than thou?

15:9  What thing knowist thou, whiche we knowen not? What thing vndurstondist thou, whiche we witen not?

15:10  Bothe wise men and elde, myche eldre than thi fadris, ben among vs.

15:11  Whether it is greet, that God coumforte thee? But thi schrewid wordis forbeden this.

15:12  What reisith thin herte thee, and thou as thenkynge grete thingis hast iyen astonyed?

15:13  What bolneth thi spirit ayens God, that thou brynge forth of thi mouth siche wordis?

15:14  What is a man, that he be with out wem, and that he borun of a womman appere iust?

15:15  Lo! noon among hise seyntis is vnchaungable, and heuenes ben not cleene in his siyt.

15:16  How myche more a man abhomynable and vnprofitable, that drynkith wickidnesse as water?

15:17  I schal schewe to thee, here thou me; Y schal telle to thee that, that Y siy.

15:18  Wise men knoulechen, and hiden not her fadris.

15:19  To whiche aloone the erthe is youun, and an alien schal not passe bi hem.

15:20  A wickid man is proud in alle hise daies; and the noumbre of hise yeeris and of his tirauntrie is vncerteyn.

15:21  The sown of drede is euere in hise eeris, and whanne pees is, he supposith euere tresouns.

15:22  He bileueth not that he may turne ayen fro derknessis to liyt; and biholdith aboute on ech side a swerd.

15:23  Whanne he stirith hym to seke breed, he woot, that the dai of derknessis is maad redi in his hond.

15:24  Tribulacioun schal make hym aferd, and angwisch schal cumpas hym, as a kyng which is maad redi to batel.

15:25  For he helde forth his hond ayens God, and he was maad strong ayens Almyyti God.

15:26  He ran with neck reisid ayens God, and he was armed with fat nol.

15:27  Fatnesse, that is, pride `comyng forth of temporal aboundaunce, hilide his face, `that is, the knowyng of vndurstondyng, and outward fatnesse hangith doun of his sidis.

15:28  He schal dwelle in desolat citees, and in deseert, `ethir forsakun, housis, that ben turned in to biriels.

15:29  He schal not be maad riche, nether his catel schal dwelle stidefastli; nether he schal sende his roote in the erthe,

15:30  nether he schal go awei fro derknessis. Flawme schal make drie hise braunchis, and he schal be takun a wey bi the spirit of his mouth.

15:31  Bileue he not veynli disseyued bi errour, that he schal be ayenbouyt bi ony prijs.

15:32  Bifor that hise daies ben fillid, he schal perische, and hise hondis schulen wexe drye;

15:33  he schal be hirt as a vyne in the firste flour of his grape, and as an olyue tre castinge awei his flour.

15:34  For the gaderyng togidere of an ipocrite is bareyn, and fier schal deuoure the tabernaclis of hem, that taken yiftis wilfuli.

15:35  He conseyuede sorewe, and childide wickidnesse, and his wombe makith redi tretcheries.