Wycliffe - Job - 33

33:1  Therfor, Joob, here thou my spechis, and herkene alle my wordis.

33:2  Lo! Y haue openyd my mouth, my tunge schal speke in my chekis.

33:3  Of symple herte ben my wordis, and my lippis schulen speke clene sentence.

33:4  The spirit of God made me, and the brething of Almyyti God quykenyde me.

33:5  If thou maist, answere thou to me, and stoonde thou ayens my face.

33:6  Lo! God made me as and thee; and also Y am formyd of the same cley.

33:7  Netheles my myracle make thee not afeerd, and myn eloquence be not greuouse to thee.

33:8  Therfor thou seidist in myn eeris, and Y herde the vois of thi wordis;

33:9  Y am cleene, and with out gilt, and vnwemmed, and wickidnesse is not in me.

33:10  `For God foond querels in me, therfor he demyde me enemy to hym silf.

33:11  He hath set my feet in a stok; he kepte alle my pathis.

33:12  Therfor this thing it is, in which thou art not maad iust; Y schal answere to thee, that God is more than man.

33:13  Thou stryuest ayenus God, that not at alle wordis he answeride to thee.

33:14  God spekith onys, and the secounde tyme he rehersith not the same thing.

33:15  God spekith bi a dreem in the visioun of nyyt, whanne sleep fallith on men, and thei slepen in the bed.

33:16  Thanne he openith the eeris of men, and he techith hem, `and techith prudence;

33:17  that he turne awei a man fro these thingis whiche he made, and delyuere hym fro pride; delyuerynge his soule fro corrupcioun,

33:18  and his lijf, that it go not in to swerd.

33:19  Also God blameth a synnere bi sorewe in the bed, and makith alle the boonys of hym `to fade.

33:20  Breed is maad abhomynable to hym in his lijf, and mete desirable `bifor to his soule.

33:21  His fleisch schal faile for rot, and hise boonys, that weren hilid, schulen be maad nakid.

33:22  His soule schal neiye to corrupcioun, and his lijf to thingis `bryngynge deeth.

33:23  If an aungel, oon of a thousynde, is spekynge for hym, that he telle the equyte of man, God schal haue mercy on hym,

33:24  and schal seie, Delyuere thou hym, that he go not doun in to corrupcioun; Y haue founde in what thing Y schal do merci to hym.

33:25  His fleisch is wastid of turmentis; turne he ayen to the daies of his yonge wexynge age.

33:26  He schal biseche God, and he schal be quemeful to hym; and he schal se his face in hertly ioye, and he schal yelde to man his riytfulnesse.

33:27  He schal biholde men, and he schal seie, Y haue synned, and verili Y haue trespassid; and Y haue not resseyued, as Y was worthi.

33:28  For he delyueride his soule, that it schulde not go in to perischyng, but that he lyuynge schulde se liyt.

33:29  Lo! God worchith alle these thingis in thre tymes bi alle men;

33:30  that he ayen clepe her soulis fro corrupcioun, and liytne in the liyt of lyuynge men.

33:31  Thou, Joob, perseyue, and here me, and be thou stille, the while Y speke.

33:32  Sotheli if thou hast what thou schalt speke, answere thou to me, speke thou; for Y wole, that thou appere iust.

33:33  That if thou hast not, here thou me; be thou stille, and Y schal teche thee wisdom.