Wycliffe - Job - 40

40:1  Forsothe the Lord answeride to Joob fro the whirlewynd,

40:2  and seide, Girde thou as a man thi leendis, and Y schal axe thee, and schewe thou to me.

40:3  Whether thou schalt make voide my doom, and schalt condempne me, that thou be maad iust?

40:4  And if thou hast an arm, as God hath, and if thou thundrist with lijk vois, `take thou fairnesse aboute thee,

40:5  and be thou reisid an hiy, and be thou gloriouse, and be thou clothid `in faire clothis.

40:6  Distrie thou proude men in thi woodnesse, and biholde thou, and make lowe ech bostere.

40:7  Biholde thou alle proude men, and schende thou hem; and al to-breke thou wickid men in her place.

40:8  Hide thou hem in dust togidere, and drenche doun her faces in to a diche.

40:9  And Y schal knowleche, that thi riyt hond may saue thee.

40:10  Lo! behemot, whom Y made with thee, schal as an oxe ete hey.

40:11  His strengthe is in hise leendis, and his vertu is in the nawle of his wombe.

40:12  He streyneth his tail as a cedre; the senewis of his `stones of gendrure ben foldid togidere.

40:13  Hise boonys ben as the pipis of bras; the gristil of hym is as platis of yrun.

40:14  He is the bigynnyng of the weies of God; he, that made hym, schal sette his swerd to hym.

40:15  Hillis beren eerbis to this behemot; alle the beestis of the feeld pleien there.

40:16  He slepith vndur schadewe, in the pryuete of rehed, in moiste places.

40:17  Schadewis hilen his schadewe; the salewis of the ryuer cumpassen hym.

40:18  He schal soupe vp the flood, and he schal not wondre; he hath trist, that Jordan schal flowe in to his mouth.

40:19  He schal take hem bi `the iyen of hym, as bi an hook; and bi scharpe schaftis he schal perse hise nosethirlis.

40:20  Whether thou schalt mowe drawe out leuyathan with an hook, and schalt bynde with a roop his tunge?

40:21  Whethir thou schalt putte a ryng in hise nosethirlis, ethir schalt perse hyse cheke with `an hook?

40:22  Whether he schal multiplie preieris to thee, ether schal speke softe thingis to thee?

40:23  Whether he schal make couenaunt with thee, and `thou schalt take him a seruaunt euerlastinge?

40:24  Whether thou schalt scorne hym as a brid, ethir schalt bynde hym to thin handmaidis?

40:25  Schulen frendis `kerue hym, schulen marchauntis departe hym?

40:26  Whether thou schalt fille nettis with his skyn, and a `leep of fischis with his heed?

40:27  Schalt thou putte thin hond on hym? haue thou mynde of the batel, and adde no more to speke.

40:28  Lo! his hope schal disseyue hym; and in the siyt of alle men he schal be cast doun.