Job 22
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,
Forsothe Eliphat Themanytes answeride, and seide,
2 May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?
Whether a man, yhe, whanne he is of perfit kunnyng, mai be comparisound to God?
3 Is it any thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?
What profitith it to God, if thou art iust? ethir what schalt thou yyue to hym, if thi lijf is without wem?
4 Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?
Whether he schal drede, and schal repreue thee, and schal come with thee in to doom,
5 Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?
and not for thi ful myche malice, and thi wickidnessis with out noumbre, `these peynes bifelden iustli to thee?
6 For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.
For thou hast take awei with out cause the wed of thi britheren; and hast spuylid nakid men of clothis.
7 To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.
Thou yauest not watir to the feynt man; and thou withdrowist breed fro the hungri man.
8 But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it.
In the strengthe of thin arm thou haddist the lond in possessioun; and thou moost myyti heldist it.
9 Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken.
Thou leftist widewis voide; and al to-brakist the schuldris of fadirles children.
10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shall suddenly trouble thee:
Therfor thou art cumpassid with snaris; and sodeyn drede disturblith thee.
11 Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee.
And thou gessidist, that thou schuldist not se derknessis; and that thou schuldist not be oppressid with the fersnesse of watris flowyng.
12 Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.
Whether thou thenkist, that God is hiyere than heuene, and is enhaunsid aboue the coppe of sterris?
13 But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?
And thou seist, What sotheli knowith God? and, He demeth as bi derknesse.
14 The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.
A cloude is his hidyng place, and he biholdith not oure thingis, and he `goith aboute the herris of heuene.
15 Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?
Whether thou coueitist to kepe the path of worldis, which wickid men han ofte go?
16 Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:
Whiche weren takun awei bifor her tyme, and the flood distriede the foundement of hem.
17 Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, and asked what the Almightie could do for them.
Whiche seiden to God, Go thou awei fro vs; and as if Almyyti God may do no thing, thei gessiden hym,
18 Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me.
whanne he hadde fillid her housis with goodis; the sentence of whiche men be fer fro me.
19 The righteous shall see them, and shall reioyce, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorne.
Iust men schulen se, and schulen be glad; and an innocent man schal scorne hem.
20 Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.
Whether the reisyng of hem is not kit doun, and fier schal deuoure the relifs of hem?
21 Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie.
Therfor assente thou to God, and haue thou pees; and bi these thingis thou schalt haue best fruytis.
22 Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.
Take thou the lawe of his mouth, and sette thou hise wordis in thin herte.
23 If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.
If thou turnest ayen to Almyyti God, thou schalt be bildid; and thou schalt make wickidnesse fer fro thi tabernacle.
24 Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers.
He schal yyue a flynt for erthe, and goldun strondis for a flynt.
25 Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.
And Almyyti God schal be ayens thin enemyes; and siluer schal be gaderid togidere to thee.
26 And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.
Thanne on Almyyti God thou schalt flowe with delicis; and thou schalt reise thi face to God.
27 Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt render thy vowes.
Thou schalt preye hym, and he schal here thee; and thou schalt yelde thi vowis.
28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.
Thou schalt deme a thing, and it schal come to thee; and lyyt schal schyne in thi weies.
29 When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.
For he that is mekid, schal be in glorie; and he that bowith doun hise iyen, schal be saued.
30 The innocent shall deliuer the yland, and it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.
An innocent schal be saued; sotheli he schal be saued in the clennesse of hise hondis.
