Job 8
1 Then Baldad the Sauchite answered, and said,
Sotheli Baldath Suytes answeride, and seide,
2 How long will you speak these things, [how long shall] the breath of your mouth [be] abundant in words?
Hou longe schalt thou speke siche thingis? The spirit of the word of thi mouth is manyfold.
3 Will the Lord be unjust when he judges; or will he that has made all things pervert justice?
Whether God supplauntith, `ethir disseyueth, doom, and whether Almyyti God distrieth that, that is iust?
4 If your sons have sinned before him, he has cast them away because of their transgression.
Yhe, thouy thi sones synneden ayens hym, and he lefte hem in the hond of her wickidnesse;
5 But be you early in prayer to the Lord Almighty.
netheles, if thou risist eerli to God, and bisechist `Almyyti God, if thou goist clene and riytful,
6 If you are pure and true, he will listen to your supplication, and will restore to you the habitation of righteousness.
anoon he schal wake fulli to thee, and schal make pesible the dwellyng place of thi ryytfulnesse;
7 Though then your beginning should be small, yet your end should be unspeakably great.
in so miche that thi formere thingis weren litil, and that thi laste thingis be multiplied greetli.
8 For ask of the former generation, and search diligently amongst the race of [our] fathers:
For whi, axe thou the formere generacioun, and seke thou diligentli the mynde of fadris.
9 (for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow: )
For we ben men of yistirdai, and `kunnen not; for oure daies ben as schadewe on the erthe.
10 shall not these teach you, and report [to you], and bring out words from [their] heart?
And thei schulen teche thee, thei schulen speke to thee, and of her herte thei schulen bring forth spechis.
11 Does the rush flourish without water, or shall the flag grow up without moisture?
Whether a rusche may lyue with out moysture? ethir a spier `may wexe with out watir?
12 When it is yet on the root, and [though] it has not been cut down, does not any herb wither before it has received moisture?
Whanne it is yit in the flour, nethir is takun with hond, it wexeth drie bifor alle erbis.
13 Thus then shall be the end of all that forget the Lord: for the hope of the ungodly shall perish.
So the weies of alle men, that foryeten God; and the hope of an ypocrite schal perische.
14 For his house shall be without inhabitants, and his tent shall prove a spider's web.
His cowardise schal not plese hym, and his trist schal be as a web of yreyns.
15 If he should prop up his house, it shall not stand: and when he has taken hold of it, it shall not remain.
He schal leene, `ether reste, on his hows, and it schal not stonde; he schal vndursette it, and it schal not rise togidere.
16 For it is moist under the sun, and his branch shall come forth out of his dung-heap.
The rusche semeth moist, bifor that the sunne come; and in the risyng of the sunne the seed therof schal go out.
17 He lies down upon a gathering of stones, and shall live in the mist of flints.
Rootis therof schulen be maad thicke on an heep of stoonys, and it schal dwelle among stoonys.
18 If [God] should destroy [him], his place shall deny him. Hast you not seen such things,
If a man drawith it out of `his place, his place schal denye it, and schal seie, Y knowe thee not.
19 that such is the overthrow of the ungodly? and out of the earth another shall grow.
For this is the gladnesse of his weie, that eft othere ruschis springe out of the erthe.
20 For the Lord will by no means reject the harmless man; but he will not receive any gift of the ungodly.
Forsothe God schal not caste a wei a symple man, nethir schal dresse hond to wickid men;
21 But he will fill with laughter the mouth of the sincere, and their lips with thanksgiving.
til thi mouth be fillid with leiytir, and thi lippis with hertli song.
22 But their adversaries shall clothe themselves with shame; and the habitation of the ungodly shall perish.
Thei that haten thee schulen be clothid with schenschip; and the tabernacle of wickid men schal not stonde.
