Job 35
1 And Elihu went on to say:
Therfor Helyu spak eft these thingis, Whethir thi thouyt semeth euene,
2 “Do you think this is just? You say, ‘I am more righteous than God.’
`ether riytful, to thee, that thou schuldist seie, Y am riytfulere than God?
3 For you ask, ‘What does it profit me, and what benefit do I gain apart from sin?’
For thou seidist, That, that is good, plesith not thee; ethir what profitith it to thee, if Y do synne?
4 I will reply to you and to your friends as well.
Therfor Y schal answere to thi wordis, and to thi frendis with thee.
5 Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.
Se thou, and biholde heuene, and biholde thou the eir, that God is hiyere than thou.
6 If you sin, what do you accomplish against Him? If you multiply your transgressions, what do you do to Him?
If thou synnest `ayens hym, what schalt thou anoye hym? and if thi wickidnessis ben multiplied, what schalt thou do ayens hym?
7 If you are righteous, what do you give Him, or what does He receive from your hand?
Certis if thou doist iustli, what schalt thou yyue to hym; ether what schal he take of thin hond?
8 Your wickedness affects only a man like yourself, and your righteousness only a son of man.
Thi wickidnesse schal anoie a man, which is lijk thee; and thi riytfulnesse schal helpe the sone of a man.
9 Men cry out under great oppression; they plead for relief from the arm of the mighty.
Thei schulen cry for the multitude of fals chalengeris, and thei schulen weile for the violence of the arm of tirauntis.
10 But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,
And Joob seide not, Where is God, that made me, and that yaf songis in the nyyt?
11 who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?’
Which God techith vs aboue the beestis of erthe, and he schal teche vs aboue the briddis of heuene.
12 There they cry out, but He does not answer, because of the pride of evil men.
There thei schulen crye, and God schal not here, for the pride of yuele men.
13 Surely God does not listen to empty pleas, and the Almighty does not take note of it.
For God schal not here with out cause, and Almyyti God schal biholde the causis of ech man.
14 How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
Yhe, whanne thou seist, He biholdith not; be thou demed bifor hym, and abide thou hym.
15 and further, that in His anger He has not punished or taken much notice of folly!
For now he bryngith not in his strong veniaunce, nether vengith `greetli felonye.
16 So Job opens his mouth in vain and multiplies words without knowledge.”
Therfor Joob openith his mouth in veyn, and multiplieth wordis with out kunnyng.
