Wycliffe - Job - 22

22:1  Forsothe Eliphat Themanytes answeride, and seide,

22:2  Whether a man, yhe, whanne he is of perfit kunnyng, mai be comparisound to God?

22:3  What profitith it to God, if thou art iust? ethir what schalt thou yyue to hym, if thi lijf is without wem?

22:4  Whether he schal drede, and schal repreue thee, and schal come with thee in to doom,

22:5  and not for thi ful myche malice, and thi wickidnessis with out noumbre, `these peynes bifelden iustli to thee?

22:6  For thou hast take awei with out cause the wed of thi britheren; and hast spuylid nakid men of clothis.

22:7  Thou yauest not watir to the feynt man; and thou withdrowist breed fro the hungri man.

22:8  In the strengthe of thin arm thou haddist the lond in possessioun; and thou moost myyti heldist it.

22:9  Thou leftist widewis voide; and al to-brakist the schuldris of fadirles children.

22:10  Therfor thou art cumpassid with snaris; and sodeyn drede disturblith thee.

22:11  And thou gessidist, that thou schuldist not se derknessis; and that thou schuldist not be oppressid with the fersnesse of watris flowyng.

22:12  Whether thou thenkist, that God is hiyere than heuene, and is enhaunsid aboue the coppe of sterris?

22:13  And thou seist, What sotheli knowith God? and, He demeth as bi derknesse.

22:14  A cloude is his hidyng place, and he biholdith not oure thingis, and he `goith aboute the herris of heuene.

22:15  Whether thou coueitist to kepe the path of worldis, which wickid men han ofte go?

22:16  Whiche weren takun awei bifor her tyme, and the flood distriede the foundement of hem.

22:17  Whiche seiden to God, Go thou awei fro vs; and as if Almyyti God may do no thing, thei gessiden hym,

22:18  whanne he hadde fillid her housis with goodis; the sentence of whiche men be fer fro me.

22:19  Iust men schulen se, and schulen be glad; and an innocent man schal scorne hem.

22:20  Whether the reisyng of hem is not kit doun, and fier schal deuoure the relifs of hem?

22:21  Therfor assente thou to God, and haue thou pees; and bi these thingis thou schalt haue best fruytis.

22:22  Take thou the lawe of his mouth, and sette thou hise wordis in thin herte.

22:23  If thou turnest ayen to Almyyti God, thou schalt be bildid; and thou schalt make wickidnesse fer fro thi tabernacle.

22:24  He schal yyue a flynt for erthe, and goldun strondis for a flynt.

22:25  And Almyyti God schal be ayens thin enemyes; and siluer schal be gaderid togidere to thee.

22:26  Thanne on Almyyti God thou schalt flowe with delicis; and thou schalt reise thi face to God.

22:27  Thou schalt preye hym, and he schal here thee; and thou schalt yelde thi vowis.

22:28  Thou schalt deme a thing, and it schal come to thee; and lyyt schal schyne in thi weies.

22:29  For he that is mekid, schal be in glorie; and he that bowith doun hise iyen, schal be saued.

22:30  An innocent schal be saued; sotheli he schal be saued in the clennesse of hise hondis.