Wycliffe - Job - 34

34:1  And Helyu pronounside, and spak also these thingis,

34:2  Wise men, here ye my wordis, and lerned men, herkne ye me; for the eere preueth wordis,

34:3  and the throte demeth metis bi taast.

34:4  Chese we doom to vs; and se we among vs, what is the betere.

34:5  For Job seide, Y am iust, and God hath distried my doom.

34:6  For whi lesynge is in demynge me, and myn arowe is violent with out ony synne.

34:7  Who is a man, as Joob is, that drynkith scornyng as watir?

34:8  that goith with men worchynge wickidnesse, and goith with vnfeithful men?

34:9  For he seide, A man schal not plese God, yhe, thouy he renneth with God.

34:10  Therfor ye men hertid, `that is, vndurstonde, here ye me; vnpite, `ethir cruelte, be fer fro God, and wickidnesse fro Almyyti God.

34:11  For he schal yelde the werk of man to hym; and bi the weies of ech man he schal restore to hym.

34:12  For verili God schal not condempne with out cause; nether Almyyti God schal distrie doom.

34:13  What othere man hath he ordeyned on the lond? ether whom hath he set on the world, which he made?

34:14  If God dressith his herte to hym, he schal drawe to hym silf his spirit and blast.

34:15  Ech fleisch schal faile togidere; `and a man schal turne ayen in to aisch.

34:16  Therfor if thou hast vndurstondyng, here thou that that is seid, and herkne the vois of my speche.

34:17  Whether he that loueth not doom may be maad hool? and hou condempnest thou so myche him, that is iust?

34:18  Which seith to the kyng, Thou art apostata; which clepith the duykis vnpitouse, `ethir vnfeithful.

34:19  `Which takith not the persoones of princes, nether knew a tyraunt, whanne he stryuede ayens a pore man; for alle men ben the werk of hise hondis.

34:20  Thei schulen die sudeynli, and at mydnyyt puplis schulen be troblid, `ethir schulen be bowid, as othere bookis han; and schulen passe, and schulen take `awei `a violent man with out hond.

34:21  For the iyen of God ben on the weies of men, and biholdith alle goyngis of hem.

34:22  No derknessis ben, and no schadewe of deeth is, that thei, that worchen wickidnesse, be hid there;

34:23  for it is `no more in the power of man, that he come to God in to doom.

34:24  God schal al to-breke many men and vnnoumbrable; and schal make othere men to stonde for hem.

34:25  For he knowith the werkis of hem; therfor he schal brynge yn niyt, and thei schulen be al to-brokun.

34:26  He smoot hem, as vnpitouse men, in the place of seinge men.

34:27  Whiche yeden awei fro hym bi `castyng afore, and nolden vndurstonde alle hise weies.

34:28  That thei schulden make the cry of a nedi man to come to hym, and that he schulde here the vois of pore men.

34:29  For whanne he grauntith pees, who is that condempneth? Sithen he hidith his cheer, who is that seeth hym? And on folkis and on alle men `he hath power `to do siche thingis.

34:30  Which makith `a man ypocrite to regne, for the synnes of the puple.

34:31  Therfor for Y haue spoke to God, also Y schal not forbede thee.

34:32  If Y erride, teche thou me; if Y spak wickidnesse, Y schal no more adde.

34:33  Whether God axith that wickidnesse of thee, for it displeside thee? For thou hast bigunne to speke, and not Y; that if thou knowist ony thing betere, speke thou.

34:34  Men vndurstondynge, speke to me; and a wise man, here me.

34:35  Forsothe Joob spak folili, and hise wordis sownen not techyng.

34:36  My fadir, be Joob preuede `til to the ende; ceesse thou not fro the man of wickidnesse,

34:37  `that addith blasfemye ouer hise synnes. Be he constreyned among vs in the meene tyme; and thanne bi hise wordis stire he God to the doom.