Job 35
1 Moreover Elihu answered,
Therfor Helyu spak eft these thingis, Whethir thi thouyt semeth euene,
2 “Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, ‘My righteousness is more than God’s,’
`ether riytful, to thee, that thou schuldist seie, Y am riytfulere than God?
3 that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
For thou seidist, That, that is good, plesith not thee; ethir what profitith it to thee, if Y do synne?
4 I will answer you, and your companions with you.
Therfor Y schal answere to thi wordis, and to thi frendis with thee.
5 Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
Se thou, and biholde heuene, and biholde thou the eir, that God is hiyere than thou.
6 If you have sinned, what effect do you have against him? If your transgressions are multiplied, what do you do 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 you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
Certis if thou doist iustli, what schalt thou yyue to hym; ether what schal he take of thin hond?
8 Your wickedness may hurt a man as you are, and your righteousness may profit a 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 cry out. They cry for help 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 no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
And Joob seide not, Where is God, that made me, and that yaf songis in the nyyt?
11 who teaches us more than the animals of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the sky?’
Which God techith vs aboue the beestis of erthe, and he schal teche vs aboue the briddis of heuene.
12 There they cry, but no one answers, 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 an empty cry, 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 How much less when you say you don’t see him. The cause is before him, and you wait for him!
Yhe, whanne thou seist, He biholdith not; be thou demed bifor hym, and abide thou hym.
15 But now, because he has not visited in his anger, neither does he greatly regard arrogance,
For now he bryngith not in his strong veniaunce, nether vengith `greetli felonye.
16 therefore Job opens his mouth with empty talk, and he multiplies words without knowledge.”
Therfor Joob openith his mouth in veyn, and multiplieth wordis with out kunnyng.
