Job 8
1 Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,
Sotheli Baldath Suytes answeride, and seide,
2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and [let] like a mighty wind be the words of thy mouth?
Hou longe schalt thou speke siche thingis? The spirit of the word of thi mouth is manyfold.
3 Should God pervert justice? or should the Almighty pervert righteousness?
Whether God supplauntith, `ethir disseyueth, doom, and whether Almyyti God distrieth that, that is iust?
4 If thy children have sinned against him, then did he send them off through the means of their transgression.
Yhe, thouy thi sones synneden ayens hym, and he lefte hem in the hond of her wickidnesse;
5 If thou wilt earnestly seek for God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
netheles, if thou risist eerli to God, and bisechist `Almyyti God, if thou goist clene and riytful,
6 If thou become pure and upright: surely then will he watch over thee, and restore thy righteous habitation.
anoon he schal wake fulli to thee, and schal make pesible the dwellyng place of thi ryytfulnesse;
7 And thy beginning will have been small; because thy latter end will grow up greatly.
in so miche that thi formere thingis weren litil, and that thi laste thingis be multiplied greetli.
8 For ask, I pray thee, of an earlier generation, and prepare thyself to [stand by] the research of their fathers; —
For whi, axe thou the formere generacioun, and seke thou diligentli the mynde of fadris.
9 For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because a [mere] shadow are our days upon earth; —
For we ben men of yistirdai, and `kunnen not; for oure daies ben as schadewe on the erthe.
10 Behold, these will truly teach thee, they will speak unto thee, and out of their very heart will they bring forth words:
And thei schulen teche thee, thei schulen speke to thee, and of her herte thei schulen bring forth spechis.
11 Can the bulrush shoot upward without mire? can the meadow-grass grow up without water?
Whether a rusche may lyue with out moysture? ethir a spier `may wexe with out watir?
12 It is yet in its greenness, not yet cut down, when it withereth before any other grass.
Whanne it is yit in the flour, nethir is takun with hond, it wexeth drie bifor alle erbis.
13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the hypocrite will perish:
So the weies of alle men, that foryeten God; and the hope of an ypocrite schal perische.
14 [It is he] whose trust will be cut off, and but a spider's web is that in which he confideth.
His cowardise schal not plese hym, and his trist schal be as a web of yreyns.
15 He leaneth against his house, but it shall not stand: he layeth fast hold on it, but it shall not remain erect.
He schal leene, `ether reste, on his hows, and it schal not stonde; he schal vndursette it, and it schal not rise togidere.
16 He is in full vigor before the sun, and over his garden his shoots go forth.
The rusche semeth moist, bifor that the sunne come; and in the risyng of the sunne the seed therof schal go out.
17 His roots are twisted about a stoneheap, he selecteth [for himself] a place of stones.
Rootis therof schulen be maad thicke on an heep of stoonys, and it schal dwelle among stoonys.
18 But when men destroy him from his place, then will it deny him, saying, I have never seen thee.
If a man drawith it out of `his place, his place schal denye it, and schal seie, Y knowe thee not.
19 Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the [same] dust others will grow up.
For this is the gladnesse of his weie, that eft othere ruschis springe out of the erthe.
20 Behold, God will not reject a perfect man, and will not hold fast by their hand the evil-doers:
Forsothe God schal not caste a wei a symple man, nethir schal dresse hond to wickid men;
21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with joyful shouting.
til thi mouth be fillid with leiytir, and thi lippis with hertli song.
22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
Thei that haten thee schulen be clothid with schenschip; and the tabernacle of wickid men schal not stonde.
