Wycliffe - Job - 29

29:1  Also Joob addide, takynge his parable, and seide,

29:2  Who yyueth to me, that I be bisidis the elde monethis, bi the daies in whiche God kepte me?

29:3  Whanne his lanterne schynede on myn heed, and Y yede in derknessis at his liyt.

29:4  As Y was in the daies of my yongthe, whanne in priuete God was in my tabernacle.

29:5  Whanne Almyyti God was with me, and my children weren in my cumpas;

29:6  whanne Y waischide my feet in botere, and the stoon schedde out to me the stremes of oile;

29:7  whanne Y yede forth to the yate of the citee, and in the street thei maden redi a chaier to me.

29:8  Yonge men, `that is, wantoun, sien me, and weren hid, and elde men risynge vp stoden;

29:9  princes ceessiden to speke, and puttiden the fyngur on her mouth;

29:10  duykis refreyneden her vois, and her tunge cleuyde to her throte.

29:11  An eere herynge blesside me, and an iye seynge yeldide witnessyng to me;

29:12  for Y hadde delyueride a pore man criynge, and a fadirles child, that hadde noon helpere.

29:13  The blessyng of a man `to perische cam on me, and Y coumfortide the herte of a widewe.

29:14  Y was clothid with riytfulnesse; and Y clothide me as with a cloth, and with my `doom a diademe.

29:15  Y was iye `to a blynde man, and foot to a crokyd man.

29:16  Y was a fadir of pore men; and Y enqueride most diligentli the cause, which Y knew not.

29:17  Y al tobrak the grete teeth of the wickid man, and Y took awei prey fro hise teeth.

29:18  And Y seide, Y schal die in my nest; and as a palm tre Y schal multiplie daies.

29:19  My roote is openyde bisidis watris, and deew schal dwelle in my repyng.

29:20  My glorie schal euere be renulid, and my bouwe schal be astorid in myn hond.

29:21  Thei, that herden me, abiden my sentence; and thei weren ententif, and weren stille to my counsel.

29:22  Thei dursten no thing adde to my wordis; and my speche droppide on hem.

29:23  Thei abididen me as reyn; and thei openyden her mouth as to the softe reyn `comynge late.

29:24  If ony tyme Y leiyide to hem, thei bileueden not; and the liyt of my cheer felde not doun in to erthe.

29:25  If Y wolde go to hem, Y sat the firste; and whanne Y sat as kyng, while the oost stood aboute, netheles Y was comfortour of hem that morenyden.