< Job 31 >
1 covenant to cut: make(covenant) to/for eye my and what? to understand upon virgin
I made couenaunt with myn iyen, that Y schulde not thenke of a virgyn.
2 and what? portion god from above and inheritance Almighty from height
For what part schulde God aboue haue in me, and eritage Almyyti God of hiye thingis?
3 not calamity to/for unjust and misfortune to/for to work evil: wickedness
Whether perdicioun is not to a wickid man, and alienacioun of God is to men worchynge wickidnesse?
4 not he/she/it to see: see way: conduct my and all step my to recount
Whether he biholdith not my weies, and noumbrith alle my goyngis?
5 if to go: walk with vanity: false and to hasten upon deceit foot my
If Y yede in vanyte, and my foot hastide in gile,
6 to weigh me in/on/with balance righteousness and to know god integrity my
God weie me in a iust balaunce, and knowe my symplenesse.
7 if to stretch step my from [the] way: conduct and after eye my to go: went heart my and in/on/with palm my to cleave blemish
If my step bowide fro the weie; if myn iye suede myn herte, and a spotte cleuede to myn hondis;
8 to sow and another to eat and offspring my to uproot
sowe Y, and another ete, and my generacioun be drawun out bi the root.
9 if to entice heart my upon woman and upon entrance neighbor my to ambush
If myn herte was disseyued on a womman, and if Y settide aspies at the dore of my frend; my wijf be the hoore of anothir man,
10 to grind to/for another woman: wife my and upon her to bow [emph?] another
and othir men be bowid doun on hir.
11 for (he/she/it *Q(K)*) wickedness (and he/she/it *Q(k)*) iniquity: crime judge
For this is vnleueful, and the moost wickidnesse.
12 for fire he/she/it till Abaddon to eat and in/on/with all produce my to uproot
Fier is deourynge `til to wastyng, and drawynge vp bi the roote alle generaciouns.
13 if to reject justice servant/slave my and maidservant my in/on/with strife their with me me
If Y dispiside to take doom with my seruaunt and myn hand mayde, whanne thei stryueden ayens me.
14 and what? to make: do for to arise: rise God and for to reckon: visit what? to return: reply him
What sotheli schal Y do, whanne God schal rise to deme? and whanne he schal axe, what schal Y answere to hym?
15 not in/on/with belly: womb to make me to make him and to establish: make him in/on/with womb one
Whether he, that wrouyte also hym, made not me in the wombe, and o God formede me in the wombe?
16 if to withhold from pleasure poor and eye widow to end: expend
If Y denyede to pore men that, that thei wolden, and if Y made the iyen of a wydewe to abide;
17 and to eat morsel my to/for alone me and not to eat orphan from her
if Y aloone eet my mussel, and a faderles child eet not therof;
18 for from youth my to magnify me like/as father and from belly: womb mother my to lead her
for merciful doyng encreesside with me fro my yong childhed, and yede out of my modris wombe with me;
19 if to see: see to perish from without clothing and nothing covering to/for needy
if Y dispiside a man passynge forth, for he hadde not a cloth, and a pore man with out hilyng;
20 if not to bless me (loin his *Q(K)*) and from fleece lamb my to warm
if hise sidis blessiden not me, and was not maad hoot of the fleeces of my scheep;
21 if to wave upon orphan hand: power my for to see: see in/on/with gate help my
if Y reiside myn hond on a fadirles child, yhe, whanne Y siy me the hiyere in the yate;
22 shoulder my from shoulder [to] to fall: fall and arm my from branch: shoulder her to break
my schuldre falle fro his ioynt, and myn arm with hise boonys be al to-brokun.
23 for dread to(wards) me calamity God and from elevation his not be able
For euere Y dredde God, as wawis wexynge gret on me; and `Y myyte not bere his birthun.
24 if to set: make gold loin my and to/for gold to say confidence my
If Y gesside gold my strengthe, and if Y seide to purid gold, Thou art my trist;
25 if to rejoice for many strength: rich my and for mighty to find hand my
if Y was glad on my many ritchessis, and for myn hond foond ful many thingis;
26 if to see: see light for to shine and moon precious to go: walk
if Y siy the sunne, whanne it schynede, and the moone goynge clereli;
27 and to entice in/on/with secrecy heart my and to kiss hand my to/for lip my
and if myn herte was glad in priuyte, and if Y kisside myn hond with my mouth;
28 also he/she/it iniquity: crime judge for to deceive to/for God from above
which is the moost wickidnesse, and deniyng ayens hiyeste God;
29 if to rejoice in/on/with disaster to hate me and to rouse for to find him bad: evil
if Y hadde ioye at the fallyng of hym, that hatide me, and if Y ioide fulli, that yuel hadde founde hym;
30 and not to give: allow to/for to sin palate my to/for to ask in/on/with oath soul: life his
for Y yaf not my throte to do synne, that Y schulde asaile and curse his soule;
31 if not to say man tent my who? to give: allow from flesh his not to satisfy
if the men of my tabernacle seiden not, Who yyueth, that we be fillid of hise fleischis? a pilgryme dwellide not with outforth;
32 in/on/with outside not to lodge sojourner door my to/for way to open
my dore was opyn to a weiegoere;
33 if to cover like/as Adam transgression my to/for to hide in/on/with breast my iniquity: crime my
if Y as man hidde my synne, and helide my wickidnesse in my bosum;
34 for to tremble crowd many and contempt family to to be dismayed me and to silence: silent not to come out: come entrance
if Y dredde at ful greet multitude, and if dispisyng of neyyboris made me aferd; and not more Y was stille, and yede not out of the dore;
35 who? to give: if only! to/for me to hear: hear to/for me look! mark my Almighty to answer me and scroll: document to write man strife my
who yyueth an helpere to me, that Almyyti God here my desire? that he that demeth,
36 if: surely yes not upon shoulder my to lift: bear him to bind him crown to/for me
write a book, that Y bere it in my schuldre, and cumpasse it as a coroun to me?
37 number step my to tell him like leader to present: come him
Bi alle my degrees Y schal pronounce it, and Y schal as offre it to the prynce.
38 if upon me land: soil my to cry out and unitedness furrow her to weep [emph?]
If my lond crieth ayens me, and hise forewis wepen with it;
39 if strength her to eat without silver: money and soul: life master her to breathe
if Y eet fruytis therof with out money, and Y turmentide the soule of erthetileris of it;
40 underneath: instead wheat to come out: issue thistle and underneath: instead barley foul weed to finish word Job
a brere growe to me for wheete, and a thorn for barli.