Job 35

1 Elihu spoke moreover, and said,

Therfor Helyu spak eft these thingis, Whethir thi thouyt semeth euene,

2 Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?

`ether riytful, to thee, that thou schuldist seie, Y am riytfulere than God?

3 For thou saidst, What advantage will it be to thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

For thou seidist, That, that is good, plesith not thee; ethir what profitith it to thee, if Y do synne?

4 I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

Therfor Y schal answere to thi wordis, and to thi frendis with thee.

5 Look to the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

Se thou, and biholde heuene, and biholde thou the eir, that God is hiyere than thou.

6 If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? or if thy transgressions are multiplied, what doest thou to him?

If thou synnest `ayens hym, what schalt thou anoye hym? and if thi wickidnessis ben multiplied, what schalt thou do ayens hym?

7 If thou art righteous, what givest thou to him? or what receiveth he from thy hand?

Certis if thou doist iustli, what schalt thou yyue to hym; ether what schal he take of thin hond?

8 Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

Thi wickidnesse schal anoie a man, which is lijk thee; and thi riytfulnesse schal helpe the sone of a man.

9 By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

Thei schulen cry for the multitude of fals chalengeris, and thei schulen weile for the violence of the arm of tirauntis.

10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

And Joob seide not, Where is God, that made me, and that yaf songis in the nyyt?

11 Who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?

Which God techith vs aboue the beestis of erthe, and he schal teche vs aboue the briddis of heuene.

12 There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.

There thei schulen crye, and God schal not here, for the pride of yuele men.

13 Surely God will not hear vanity, neither will the Almighty regard it.

For God schal not here with out cause, and Almyyti God schal biholde the causis of ech man.

14 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

Yhe, whanne thou seist, He biholdith not; be thou demed bifor hym, and abide thou hym.

15 But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

For now he bryngith not in his strong veniaunce, nether vengith `greetli felonye.

16 Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

Therfor Joob openith his mouth in veyn, and multiplieth wordis with out kunnyng.