Wycliffe - Job - 8

8:1  Sotheli Baldath Suytes answeride, and seide,

8:2  Hou longe schalt thou speke siche thingis? The spirit of the word of thi mouth is manyfold.

8:3  Whether God supplauntith, `ethir disseyueth, doom, and whether Almyyti God distrieth that, that is iust?

8:4  Yhe, thouy thi sones synneden ayens hym, and he lefte hem in the hond of her wickidnesse;

8:5  netheles, if thou risist eerli to God, and bisechist `Almyyti God, if thou goist clene and riytful,

8:6  anoon he schal wake fulli to thee, and schal make pesible the dwellyng place of thi ryytfulnesse;

8:7  in so miche that thi formere thingis weren litil, and that thi laste thingis be multiplied greetli.

8:8  For whi, axe thou the formere generacioun, and seke thou diligentli the mynde of fadris. For we ben men of yistirdai, and `kunnen not; for oure daies ben as schadewe on the erthe.

8:10  And thei schulen teche thee, thei schulen speke to thee, and of her herte thei schulen bring forth spechis.

8:11  Whether a rusche may lyue with out moysture? ethir a spier `may wexe with out watir?

8:12  Whanne it is yit in the flour, nethir is takun with hond, it wexeth drie bifor alle erbis.

8:13  So the weies of alle men, that foryeten God; and the hope of an ypocrite schal perische.

8:14  His cowardise schal not plese hym, and his trist schal be as a web of yreyns.

8:15  He schal leene, `ether reste, on his hows, and it schal not stonde; he schal vndursette it, and it schal not rise togidere.

8:16  The rusche semeth moist, bifor that the sunne come; and in the risyng of the sunne the seed therof schal go out.

8:17  Rootis therof schulen be maad thicke on an heep of stoonys, and it schal dwelle among stoonys.

8:18  If a man drawith it out of `his place, his place schal denye it, and schal seie, Y knowe thee not.

8:19  For this is the gladnesse of his weie, that eft othere ruschis springe out of the erthe.

8:20  Forsothe God schal not caste a wei a symple man, nethir schal dresse hond to wickid men;

8:21  til thi mouth be fillid with leiytir, and thi lippis with hertli song.

8:22  Thei that haten thee schulen be clothid with schenschip; and the tabernacle of wickid men schal not stonde.