Job 11
1 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and sayde,
Forsothe Sophar Naamathites answeride, and seide,
2 Should not the multitude of wordes be answered? or should a great talker be iustified?
Whether he, that spekith many thingis, schal not also here? ether whethir a man ful of wordis schal be maad iust?
3 Should men holde their peace at thy lyes? and when thou mockest others, shall none make thee ashamed?
Schulen men be stille to thee aloone? whanne thou hast scorned othere men, schalt thou not be ouercomun of ony man?
4 For thou hast sayde, My doctrine is pure, and I am cleane in thine eyes.
For thou seidist, My word is cleene, and Y am cleene in thi siyt.
5 But, oh that God would speake and open his lippes against thee!
And `Y wolde, that God spak with thee, and openyde hise lippis to thee;
6 That he might shewe thee the secretes of wisedome, howe thou hast deserued double, according to right: know therefore that God hath forgotten thee for thine iniquitie.
to schewe to thee the priuetees of wisdom, and that his lawe is manyfold, and thou schuldist vndurstonde, that thou art requirid of hym to paie myche lesse thingis, than thi wickidnesse disserueth.
7 Canst thou by searching finde out God? canst thou finde out ye Almighty to his perfection?
In hap thou schalt comprehende the steppis of God, and thou schalt fynde Almyyti God `til to perfeccioun.
8 The heauens are hie, what canst thou doe? it is deeper then the hell, how canst thou know it? (Sheol h7585)
He is hiyere than heuene, and what schalt thou do? he is deppere than helle, and wherof schalt thou knowe? (Sheol h7585)
9 The measure thereof is longer then the earth, and it is broader then the sea.
His mesure is lengere than erthe, and brodere than the see.
10 If hee cut off and shut vp, or gather together, who can turne him backe?
If he distrieth alle thingis, ethir dryueth streitli `in to oon, who schal ayenseie hym? Ethir who may seie to hym, Whi doest thou so?
11 For hee knoweth vaine men, and seeth iniquitie, and him that vnderstandeth nothing.
For he knowith the vanyte of men; and whether he seynge byholdith not wickidnesse?
12 Yet vaine man would be wise, though man new borne is like a wilde asse colte.
A veyn man is reisid in to pride; and gessith hym silf borun fre, as the colt of a wilde asse.
13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him:
But thou hast maad stidefast thin herte, and hast spred abrood thin hondis to hym.
14 If iniquitie be in thine hand, put it farre away, and let no wickednesse dwell in thy Tabernacle.
If thou doest awei `fro thee the wickidnesse, which is in thin hond, and vnriytfulnesse dwellith not in thi tabernacle,
15 The truely shalt thou lift vp thy face without spot, and shalt be stable, and shalt not feare.
thanne thou schalt mowe reise thi face with out wem, and thou schalt be stidefast, and thou schalt not drede.
16 But thou shalt forget thy miserie, and remember it as waters that are past.
And thou schalt foryete wretchidnesse, and thou schalt not thenke of it, as of watris that han passid.
17 Thine age also shall appeare more cleare then the noone day: thou shalt shine and bee as the morning.
And as myddai schynynge it schal reise to thee at euentid; and whanne thou gessist thee wastid, thou schalt rise vp as the dai sterre.
18 And thou shalt bee bolde, because there is hope: and thou shalt digge pittes, and shalt lye downe safely.
And thou schalt haue trist, while hope schal be set forth to thee; and thou biried schalt slepe sikurli.
19 For when thou takest thy rest, none shall make thee afraide: yea, many shall make sute vnto thee.
Thou schalt reste, and `noon schal be that schal make thee aferd; and ful many men schulen biseche thi face.
20 But the eyes of the wicked shall faile, and their refuge shall perish, and their hope shalbe sorow of minde.
But the iyen of wickid men schulen faile; and socour schal perische fro hem, and the hope of hem schal be abhominacyioun of soule.
