Job 22
1 Then Eliphaz the Themanite answered, and said:
Forsothe Eliphat Themanytes answeride, and seide,
2 Can man be compared with God, even though he were of perfect knowledge?
Whether a man, yhe, whanne he is of perfit kunnyng, mai be comparisound to God?
3 What doth it profit God if thou be just? or what dost thou give him if thy way be unspotted?
What profitith it to God, if thou art iust? ethir what schalt thou yyue to hym, if thi lijf is without wem?
4 Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:
Whether he schal drede, and schal repreue thee, and schal come with thee in to doom,
5 And not for thy manifold wickedness, and thy infinite iniquities?
and not for thi ful myche malice, and thi wickidnessis with out noumbre, `these peynes bifelden iustli to thee?
6 For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
For thou hast take awei with out cause the wed of thi britheren; and hast spuylid nakid men of clothis.
7 Thou hast not given water to the weary, thou hast withdrawn bread from the hungry.
Thou yauest not watir to the feynt man; and thou withdrowist breed fro the hungri man.
8 In the strength of thy arm thou didst possess the land, and being the most mighty thou holdest it.
In the strengthe of thin arm thou haddist the lond in possessioun; and thou moost myyti heldist it.
9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless thou hast broken in pieces.
Thou leftist widewis voide; and al to-brakist the schuldris of fadirles children.
10 Therefore art thou surrounded with snares, and sudden fear troubleth thee.
Therfor thou art cumpassid with snaris; and sodeyn drede disturblith thee.
11 And didst thou think that thou shouldst not see darkness, and that thou shouldst not be covered with the violence of overflowing waters?
And thou gessidist, that thou schuldist not se derknessis; and that thou schuldist not be oppressid with the fersnesse of watris flowyng.
12 Dost not thou think that God is higher than heaven, and is elevated above the height of the stars?
Whether thou thenkist, that God is hiyere than heuene, and is enhaunsid aboue the coppe of sterris?
13 And thou sayst: What doth God know? and he judgeth as it were through a mist.
And thou seist, What sotheli knowith God? and, He demeth as bi derknesse.
14 The clouds are his covert, and he doth not consider our things, and he walketh about the poles of heaven.
A cloude is his hidyng place, and he biholdith not oure thingis, and he `goith aboute the herris of heuene.
15 Dost thou desire to keep the path of ages, which wicked men have trodden?
Whether thou coueitist to kepe the path of worldis, which wickid men han ofte go?
16 Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.
Whiche weren takun awei bifor her tyme, and the flood distriede the foundement of hem.
17 Who said to God: Depart from us: and looked upon the Almighty as if he could do nothing:
Whiche seiden to God, Go thou awei fro vs; and as if Almyyti God may do no thing, thei gessiden hym,
18 Whereas he had filled their houses with good things: whose way of thinking be far from me.
whanne he hadde fillid her housis with goodis; the sentence of whiche men be fer fro me.
19 The just shall see, and shall rejoice, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorn.
Iust men schulen se, and schulen be glad; and an innocent man schal scorne hem.
20 Is not their exaltation cut down, and hath not fire devoured the remnants of them?
Whether the reisyng of hem is not kit doun, and fier schal deuoure the relifs of hem?
21 Submit thyself then to him, and be at peace: and thereby thou shalt have the best fruits.
Therfor assente thou to God, and haue thou pees; and bi these thingis thou schalt haue best fruytis.
22 Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
Take thou the lawe of his mouth, and sette thou hise wordis in thin herte.
23 If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.
If thou turnest ayen to Almyyti God, thou schalt be bildid; and thou schalt make wickidnesse fer fro thi tabernacle.
24 He shall give for earth flint, and for flint torrents of gold.
He schal yyue a flynt for erthe, and goldun strondis for a flynt.
25 And the Almighty shall be against thy enemies, and silver shall be heaped together for thee.
And Almyyti God schal be ayens thin enemyes; and siluer schal be gaderid togidere to thee.
26 Then shalt thou abound in delights in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face to God.
Thanne on Almyyti God thou schalt flowe with delicis; and thou schalt reise thi face to God.
27 Thou shalt pray to him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay vows.
Thou schalt preye hym, and he schal here thee; and thou schalt yelde thi vowis.
28 Thou shalt decree a thing, and it I shall come to thee, and light shall shine in thy ways.
Thou schalt deme a thing, and it schal come to thee; and lyyt schal schyne in thi weies.
29 For he that hath been humbled, shall be in glory: and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved.
For he that is mekid, schal be in glorie; and he that bowith doun hise iyen, schal be saued.
30 The innocent shall be saved, and he shall be saved by the cleanness of his hands.
An innocent schal be saued; sotheli he schal be saued in the clennesse of hise hondis.
