Job 27
1 And Job again took up his parable, and said:
Also Joob addide, takynge his parable, and seide,
2 As God liveth, who hath taken away my right; and the Almighty, who hath dealt bitterly with me;
God lyueth, that hath take awey my doom, and Almyyti God, that hath brouyt my soule to bitternesse.
3 All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils,
For as long as breeth is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nose thirlis,
4 Surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit;
my lippis schulen not speke wickidnesse, nether my tunge schal thenke a leesyng.
5 Far be it from me that I should justify you; till I die I will not put away mine integrity from me.
Fer be it fro me, that Y deme you iust; til Y faile, Y schal not go awei fro myn innocence.
6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go; my heart shall not reproach me so long as I live.
Y schal not forsake my iustifiyng, which Y bigan to holde; for myn herte repreueth me not in al my lijf.
7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and let him that riseth up against me be as the unrighteous.
As my wickid enemy doth; myn aduersarie is as wickid.
8 For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, when God taketh away his soul?
For what is the hope of an ypocrite, if he rauyschith gredili, and God delyuerith not his soule?
9 Will God hear his cry, when trouble cometh upon him?
Whether God schal here the cry of hym, whanne angwisch schal come on hym?
10 Will he have his delight in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?
ether whether he may delite in Almyyti God, and inwardli clepe God in al tyme?
11 I will teach you concerning the hand of God; that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal.
Y schal teche you bi the hond of God, what thingis Almyyti God hath; and Y schal not hide.
12 Behold, all ye yourselves have seen it; why then are ye become altogether vain?
Lo! alle ye knowen, and what speken ye veyn thingis with out cause?
13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
This is the part of a wickid man anentis God, and the eritage of violent men, ether rauenours, whiche thei schulen take of Almyyti God.
14 If his children be multiplied, it is for the sword; and his offspring shall not have bread enough.
If hise children ben multiplied, thei schulen be slayn in swerd; and hise sones sones schulen not be fillid with breed.
15 Those that remain of him shall be buried by pestilence, and his widows shall make no lamentation.
Thei, that ben residue of hym, schulen be biried in perischyng; and the widewis of hym schulen not wepe.
16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
If he gaderith togidere siluer as erthe, and makith redi clothis as cley;
17 He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
sotheli he made redi, but a iust man schal be clothid in tho, and an innocent man schal departe the siluer.
18 He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth which the keeper maketh.
As a mouyte he hath bildid his hous, and as a kepere he made a schadewyng place.
19 He lieth down rich, but there shall be not to gather; he openeth his eyes, and his wealth is not.
A riche man, whanne he schal die, schal bere no thing with hym; he schal opene hise iyen, and he schal fynde no thing.
20 Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
Pouert as water schal take hym; and tempeste schal oppresse hym in the nyyt.
21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; and it sweepeth him out of his place.
Brennynge wynd schal take hym, and schal do awei; and as a whirlewynd it schal rauysche hym fro his place.
22 Yea, it hurleth at him, and spareth not; he would fain flee from its power.
He schal sende out turmentis on hym, and schal not spare; he fleynge schal `fle fro his hond.
23 Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
He schal streyne hise hondis on him, and he schal hisse on hym, and schal biholde his place.
