Wycliffe - Job - 31

31:1  I made couenaunt with myn iyen, that Y schulde not thenke of a virgyn.

31:2  For what part schulde God aboue haue in me, and eritage Almyyti God of hiye thingis?

31:3  Whether perdicioun is not to a wickid man, and alienacioun of God is to men worchynge wickidnesse?

31:4  Whether he biholdith not my weies, and noumbrith alle my goyngis?

31:5  If Y yede in vanyte, and my foot hastide in gile,

31:6  God weie me in a iust balaunce, and knowe my symplenesse.

31:7  If my step bowide fro the weie; if myn iye suede myn herte, and a spotte cleuede to myn hondis;

31:8  sowe Y, and another ete, and my generacioun be drawun out bi the root.

31:9  If myn herte was disseyued on a womman, and if Y settide aspies at the dore of my frend; my wijf be the hoore of anothir man,

31:10  and othir men be bowid doun on hir.

31:11  For this is vnleueful, and the moost wickidnesse.

31:12  Fier is deourynge `til to wastyng, and drawynge vp bi the roote alle generaciouns.

31:13  If Y dispiside to take doom with my seruaunt and myn hand mayde, whanne thei stryueden ayens me.

31:14  What sotheli schal Y do, whanne God schal rise to deme? and whanne he schal axe, what schal Y answere to hym?

31:15  Whether he, that wrouyte also hym, made not me in the wombe, and o God formede me in the wombe?

31:16  If Y denyede to pore men that, that thei wolden, and if Y made the iyen of a wydewe to abide;

31:17  if Y aloone eet my mussel, and a faderles child eet not therof;

31:18  for merciful doyng encreesside with me fro my yong childhed, and yede out of my modris wombe with me;

31:19  if Y dispiside a man passynge forth, for he hadde not a cloth, and a pore man with out hilyng;

31:20  if hise sidis blessiden not me, and was not maad hoot of the fleeces of my scheep;

31:21  if Y reiside myn hond on a fadirles child, yhe, whanne Y siy me the hiyere in the yate;

31:22  my schuldre falle fro his ioynt, and myn arm with hise boonys be al to-brokun.

31:23  For euere Y dredde God, as wawis wexynge gret on me; and `Y myyte not bere his birthun.

31:24  If Y gesside gold my strengthe, and if Y seide to purid gold, Thou art my trist;

31:25  if Y was glad on my many ritchessis, and for myn hond foond ful many thingis;

31:26  if Y siy the sunne, whanne it schynede, and the moone goynge clereli;

31:27  and if myn herte was glad in priuyte, and if Y kisside myn hond with my mouth;

31:28  which is the moost wickidnesse, and deniyng ayens hiyeste God;

31:29  if Y hadde ioye at the fallyng of hym, that hatide me, and if Y ioide fulli, that yuel hadde founde hym;

31:30  for Y yaf not my throte to do synne, that Y schulde asaile and curse his soule;

31:31  if the men of my tabernacle seiden not, Who yyueth, that we be fillid of hise fleischis? a pilgryme dwellide not with outforth;

31:32  my dore was opyn to a weiegoere;

31:33  if Y as man hidde my synne, and helide my wickidnesse in my bosum;

31:34  if Y dredde at ful greet multitude, and if dispisyng of neyyboris made me aferd; and not more Y was stille, and yede not out of the dore;

31:35  who yyueth an helpere to me, that Almyyti God here my desire? that he that demeth,

31:36  write a book, that Y bere it in my schuldre, and cumpasse it as a coroun to me?

31:37  Bi alle my degrees Y schal pronounce it, and Y schal as offre it to the prynce.

31:38  If my lond crieth ayens me, and hise forewis wepen with it;

31:39  if Y eet fruytis therof with out money, and Y turmentide the soule of erthetileris of it;

31:40  a brere growe to me for wheete, and a thorn for barli.