Job 25

1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

Forsothe Baldach Suytes answeride, and seide,

2 What beginning or fear is his—even he that makes all things in the highest?

Power and drede is anentis hym, that is, God, that makith acordyng in hise hiye thingis.

3 For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him?

Whether noumbre is of hise knyytis? and on whom schyneth not his liyt?

4 For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?

Whether a man comparisound to God mai be iustified, ether borun of a womman mai appere cleene?

5 If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.

Lo! also the moone schyneth not, and sterris ben not cleene in `his siyt;

6 But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.

hou miche more a man rot, and the sone of a man a worm, is vncleene `and vile, if he is comparisound to God.