Job 33
1 Howbeit hear, Job, my words, and listen to my speech.
Therfor, Joob, here thou my spechis, and herkene alle my wordis.
2 For behold, I have opened my mouth, and my tongue has spoken.
Lo! Y haue openyd my mouth, my tunge schal speke in my chekis.
3 My heart [shall be found] pure by [my] words; and the understanding of my lips shall meditate purity.
Of symple herte ben my wordis, and my lippis schulen speke clene sentence.
4 The Divine Spirit is that which formed me, and the breath of the Almighty that which teaches me.
The spirit of God made me, and the brething of Almyyti God quykenyde me.
5 If you can, give me an answer: wait therefore; stand against me, and I [will stand] against you.
If thou maist, answere thou to me, and stoonde thou ayens my face.
6 You are formed out of the clay as also I: we have been formed out of the same [substance].
Lo! God made me as and thee; and also Y am formyd of the same cley.
7 My fear shall not terrify you, neither shall my hand be heavy upon you.
Netheles my myracle make thee not afeerd, and myn eloquence be not greuouse to thee.
8 But you have said in mine ears, (I have heard the voice of your words; ) because you say, I am pure, not having sinned;
Therfor thou seidist in myn eeris, and Y herde the vois of thi wordis;
9 I am blameless, for I have not transgressed.
Y am cleene, and with out gilt, and vnwemmed, and wickidnesse is not in me.
10 Yet he has discovered a charge against me, and he has reckoned me as an adversary.
`For God foond querels in me, therfor he demyde me enemy to hym silf.
11 And he has put my foot in the stocks, and has watched all my ways.
He hath set my feet in a stok; he kepte alle my pathis.
12 For how say you, I am righteous, yet he has not listened to me? for he that is above mortals is eternal.
Therfor this thing it is, in which thou art not maad iust; Y schal answere to thee, that God is more than man.
13 But you say, Why has he not heard every word of my cause?
Thou stryuest ayenus God, that not at alle wordis he answeride to thee.
14 For when the Lord speaks once, or a second time,
God spekith onys, and the secounde tyme he rehersith not the same thing.
15 [sending] a dream, or in the meditation of the night; (as when a dreadful alarm happens to fall upon men, in slumberings on the bed: )
God spekith bi a dreem in the visioun of nyyt, whanne sleep fallith on men, and thei slepen in the bed.
16 then opens he the understanding of men: he scares them with such fearful visions:
Thanne he openith the eeris of men, and he techith hem, `and techith prudence;
17 to turn a man from unrighteousness, and he delivers his body from a fall.
that he turne awei a man fro these thingis whiche he made, and delyuere hym fro pride; delyuerynge his soule fro corrupcioun,
18 He spares also his soul from death, and [suffers] him not to fall in war.
and his lijf, that it go not in to swerd.
19 And again, he chastens him with sickness on his bed, and the multitude of his bones is benumbed.
Also God blameth a synnere bi sorewe in the bed, and makith alle the boonys of hym `to fade.
20 And he shall not be able to take any food, though his soul shall desire meat;
Breed is maad abhomynable to hym in his lijf, and mete desirable `bifor to his soule.
21 until his flesh shall be consumed, and he shall show his bones bare.
His fleisch schal faile for rot, and hise boonys, that weren hilid, schulen be maad nakid.
22 His soul also draws near to death, and his life is in Hades.
His soule schal neiye to corrupcioun, and his lijf to thingis `bryngynge deeth.
23 Though there should be a thousand messengers of death, not one of them shall wound him: if he should purpose in his heart to turn to the Lord, and declare to man his fault, and show his folly;
If an aungel, oon of a thousynde, is spekynge for hym, that he telle the equyte of man, God schal haue mercy on hym,
24 he will support him, that he should not perish, and will restore his body as [fresh] plaster upon a wall; and he will fill his bones with morrow.
and schal seie, Delyuere thou hym, that he go not doun in to corrupcioun; Y haue founde in what thing Y schal do merci to hym.
25 And he will make his flesh tender as that of a babe, and he will restore him amongst men in [his] full strength.
His fleisch is wastid of turmentis; turne he ayen to the daies of his yonge wexynge age.
26 And he shall pray to the Lord, and his prayer shall be accepted of him; he shall enter with a cheerful countenance, with a full expression [of praise]: for he will render to men [their] due.
He schal biseche God, and he schal be quemeful to hym; and he schal se his face in hertly ioye, and he schal yelde to man his riytfulnesse.
27 Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, What kind of things have I done? and he has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins.
He schal biholde men, and he schal seie, Y haue synned, and verili Y haue trespassid; and Y haue not resseyued, as Y was worthi.
28 Deliver my soul, that it may not go to destruction, and my life shall see the light.
For he delyueride his soule, that it schulde not go in to perischyng, but that he lyuynge schulde se liyt.
29 Behold, all these things, the Mighty One works in a threefold manner with a man.
Lo! God worchith alle these thingis in thre tymes bi alle men;
30 And he has delivered my soul from death, that my life may praise him in the light.
that he ayen clepe her soulis fro corrupcioun, and liytne in the liyt of lyuynge men.
31 Listen, Job, and hear me: be silent, and I will speak.
Thou, Joob, perseyue, and here me, and be thou stille, the while Y speke.
32 If you have words, answer me: speak, for I desire you to be justified.
Sotheli if thou hast what thou schalt speke, answere thou to me, speke thou; for Y wole, that thou appere iust.
33 If not, do you hear me: be silent, and I will teach you.
That if thou hast not, here thou me; be thou stille, and Y schal teche thee wisdom.
