Wycliffe - Job - 9

9:1  Joob answeride, and seide, Verili Y woot, that it is so,

9:2  and that a man comparisound to God schal not be maad iust.

9:3  If he wole stryue with God, he may not answere to God oon for a thousynde.

9:4  He is wiys in herte, and strong in myyt; who ayenstood hym, and hadde pees?

9:5  Which bar hillis fro o place to anothir, and thei wisten not; whiche he distriede in his strong veniaunce.

9:6  Which stirith the erthe fro his place, and the pilers therof schulen `be schakun togidere.

9:7  Which comaundith to the sunne, and it risith not; and he closith the sterris, as vndur a signet.

9:8  Which aloone stretchith forth heuenes, and goith on the wawis of the see.

9:9  Which makith Ariture, and Orionas, and Hiadas, `that is, seuene sterris, and the innere thingis of the south.

9:10  Which makith grete thingis, and that moun not be souyt out, and wondurful thingis, of whiche is noon noumbre.

9:11  If he cometh to me, `that is, bi his grace, Y schal not se hym; if he goith awey, `that is, in withdrawynge his grace, Y schal not vndurstonde.

9:12  If he axith sodeynli, who schal answere to hym? ethir who may seie to hym, Whi doist thou so?

9:13  `God is he, whos wraththe no man may withstonde; and vndur whom thei ben bowid, that beren the world.

9:14  Hou greet am Y, that Y answere to hym, and speke bi my wordis with hym?

9:15  Which also schal not answere, thouy Y haue ony thing iust; but Y schal biseche my iuge.

9:16  And whanne he hath herd me inwardli clepynge, Y bileue not, that he hath herd my vois.

9:17  For in a whirlewynd he schal al to-breke me, and he schal multiplie my woundis, yhe, without cause.

9:18  He grauntith not, that my spirit haue reste, and he fillith me with bittirnesses.

9:19  If strengthe is souyt, `he is moost strong; if equyte of doom is souyt, no man dar yelde witnessynge for me.

9:20  If Y wole make me iust, my mouth schal dampne me; if Y schal schewe me innocent, he schal preue me a schrewe.

9:21  Yhe, thouy Y am symple, my soule schal not knowe this same thing; and it schal anoye me of my lijf.

9:22  O thing is, which Y spak, he schal waste `bi deth also the innocent and wickid man.

9:23  If he betith, sle he onys, and leiye he not of the peynes of innocent men.

9:24  The erthe is youun in to the hondis of the wickid; he hilith the face of iugis; that if he is not, who therfor is?

9:25  Mi daies weren swiftere than a corour; thei fledden, and sien not good.

9:26  Thei passiden as schippis berynge applis, as an egle fleynge to mete.

9:27  Whanne Y seie, Y schal not speke so; Y chaunge my face, and Y am turmentid with sorewe.

9:28  Y drede alle my werkis, witynge that thou `woldist not spare the trespassour.

9:29  Sotheli if Y am also thus wickid, whi haue Y trauelid in veyn?

9:30  Thouy Y am waischun as with watris of snow, and thouy myn hondis schynen as moost cleene,

9:31  netheles thou schalt dippe me in filthis, and my clothis, `that is, werkis, schulen holde me abhomynable.

9:32  Trewli Y schal not answere a man, which is lijk me; nether that may be herd euenli with me in doom.

9:33  `Noon is, that may repreue euer eithir, and sette his hond in bothe.

9:34  Do he awei his yerde fro me, and his drede make not me aferd.

9:35  Y schal speke, and Y schal not drede hym; for Y may not answere dredynge.