Job 14
1 man to beget woman short day and sated turmoil
A man is borun of a womman, and lyueth schort tyme, and is fillid with many wretchidnessis.
2 like/as flower to come out: issue and to languish and to flee like/as shadow and not to stand: stand
Which goith out, and is defoulid as a flour; and fleeth as schadewe, and dwellith neuere perfitli in the same staat.
3 also upon this to open eye your and [obj] me to come (in): bring in/on/with justice: judgement with you
And gessist thou it worthi to opene thin iyen on siche a man; and to brynge hym in to doom with thee?
4 who? to give: give pure from unclean not one
Who may make a man clene conseyued of vnclene seed? Whether not thou, which art aloone?
5 if to decide day his number month his with you (statute: allotment his *Q(K)*) to make and not to pass
The daies of man ben schorte, the noumbre of his monethis is at thee; thou hast set, ethir ordeyned, hise termes, whiche moun not be passid.
6 to gaze from upon him and to cease till to accept like/as hired day his
Therfor go thou awey fro hym a litil, `that is, bi withdrawyng of bodili lijf, that he haue reste; til the meede coueitid come, and his dai is as the dai of an hirid man.
7 for there to/for tree hope if to cut: cut and still to pass and shoot his not to cease
A tree hath hope, if it is kit doun; and eft it wexith greene, and hise braunches spreden forth.
8 if be old in/on/with land: soil root his and in/on/with dust to die stock his
If the roote therof is eeld in the erthe, and the stok therof is nyy deed in dust;
9 from aroma water to sprout and to make foliage like plantation
it schal buriowne at the odour of watir, and it schal make heer, as whanne it was plauntid first.
10 and great man to die and to weaken and to die man and where? he
But whanne a man is deed, and maad nakid, and wastid; Y preye, where is he?
11 be gone water from sea and river to dry and to wither
As if watris goen awei fro the see, and a ryuer maad voide wexe drie,
12 and man to lie down: lay down and not to arise: rise till lest heaven not to awake and not to rouse from sleep their
so a man, whanne he hath slept, `that is, deed, he schal not rise ayen, til heuene be brokun, `that is, be maad newe; he schal not wake, nether he schal ryse togidere fro his sleep.
13 who? to give: if only! in/on/with hell: Sheol to treasure me to hide me till to return: turn back face: anger your to set: appoint to/for me statute: portion and to remember me (Sheol h7585)
Who yiueth this to me, that thou defende me in helle, and that thou hide me, til thi greet veniaunce passe; and thou sette to me a tyme, in which thou haue mynde on me? (Sheol h7585)
14 if to die great man to live all day army: duty my to wait: wait till to come (in): come change my
Gessist thou, whethir a deed man schal lyue ayen? In alle the daies, in whiche Y holde knyythod, now Y abide, til my chaungyng come.
15 to call: call to and I to answer you to/for deed: work hand your to long
Thou schalt clepe me, and Y schal answere thee; thou schalt dresse the riyt half, `that is, blis, to the werk of thin hondis.
16 for now step my to recount not to keep: look at upon sin my
Sotheli thou hast noumbrid my steppis; but spare thou my synnes.
17 to seal in/on/with bundle transgression my and to smear upon iniquity: crime my
Thou hast seelid as in a bagge my trespassis, but thou hast curid my wickidnesse.
18 and but mountain: mount to fall: fall to wither and rock to proceed from place his
An hil fallynge droppith doun; and a rooche of stoon is borun ouer fro his place.
19 stone to beat water to overflow outpouring her dust land: soil and hope human to perish
Watris maken stoonys holowe, and the erthe is wastid litil and litil bi waischyng a wey of watir; and therfor thou schalt leese men in lijk maner.
20 to prevail him to/for perpetuity and to go: went to change face his and to send: depart him
Thou madist a man strong a litil, that he schulde passe with outen ende; thou schalt chaunge his face, and schalt sende hym out.
21 to honor: honour son: child his and not to know and be little and not to understand to/for them
Whether hise sones ben noble, ether vnnoble, he schal not vndurstonde.
22 surely flesh his upon him to pain and soul: myself his upon him to mourn
Netheles his fleisch, while he lyueth, schal haue sorewe, and his soule schal morne on hym silf.
