< Job 1 >
1 `A man, Joob bi name, was in the lond of Hus; and thilke man was symple, and riytful, and dredynge God, and goynge awey fro yuel.
man to be in/on/with land: country/planet Uz Job name his and to be [the] man [the] he/she/it complete and upright and afraid God and to turn aside: turn aside from bad: evil
2 And seuene sones and thre douytris weren borun to hym;
and to beget to/for him seven son: child and three daughter
3 and his possessioun was seuene thousynde of scheep, and thre thousynde of camels, and fyue hundrid yockis of oxis, and fyue hundrid of femal assis, and ful myche meynee; and `thilke man was grete among alle men of the eest.
and to be livestock his seven thousand flock and three thousand camel and five hundred pair cattle and five hundred she-ass and service many much and to be [the] man [the] he/she/it great: large from all son: descendant/people front: east
4 And hise sones yeden, and maden feestis bi housis, ech man in his day; and thei senten, and clepiden her thre sistris, `that thei schulden ete, and drynke wiyn with hem.
and to go: went son: child his and to make: do feast house: home man: anyone day his and to send: depart and to call: call to to/for three (sister their *Q(k)*) to/for to eat and to/for to drink with them
5 And whanne the daies of feeste hadden passid in to the world, Joob sente to hem, and halewide hem, and he roos eerli, and offride brent sacrifices `bi alle. For he seide, Lest perauenture my sones do synne, and curse God in her hertis. Joob dide so in alle daies.
and to be for to surround day [the] feast and to send: depart Job and to consecrate: consecate them and to rise in/on/with morning and to ascend: offer up burnt offering number all their for to say Job perhaps to sin son: child my and to bless God in/on/with heart their thus to make: do Job all [the] day: daily
6 Forsothe in sum day, whanne the sones of God `weren comun to be present bifor the Lord, also Sathan cam among hem.
and to be [the] day and to come (in): come son: child [the] God to/for to stand upon LORD and to come (in): come also [the] Satan in/on/with midst their
7 To whom the Lord seide, Fro whennus comest thou? Which answeride, and seide, Y haue cumpassid the erthe, and Y haue walkid thorouy it.
and to say LORD to(wards) [the] Satan from where? to come (in): come and to answer [the] Satan [obj] LORD and to say from to rove in/on/with land: country/planet and from to go: walk in/on/with her
8 And the Lord seide to hym, Whether thou hast biholde my seruaunt Joob, that noon in erthe is lyik hym; he is a symple man, and riytful, and dredynge God, and goynge awei fro yuel?
and to say LORD to(wards) [the] Satan to set: consider heart your upon servant/slave my Job for nothing like him in/on/with land: country/planet man complete and upright afraid God and to turn aside: turn aside from bad: evil
9 To whom Sathan answeride, Whether Joob dredith God veynli?
and to answer [the] Satan [obj] LORD and to say for nothing to fear: revere Job God
10 Whethir thou hast not cumpassid hym, and his hows, and al his catel bi cumpas? Thou hast blessid the werkis of hise hondis, and hise possessioun encreesside in erthe.
not (you(m. s.) *Q(K)*) to hedge about/through/for him and about/through/for house: home his and about/through/for all which to/for him from around: side deed: work hand his to bless and livestock his to break through in/on/with land: country/planet
11 But stretche forth thin hond a litil, and touche thou alle thingis whiche he hath in possessioun; if he cursith not thee `in the face, `bileue not to me.
and but to send: reach please hand your and to touch in/on/with all which to/for him if: surely yes not upon face your to bless you
12 Therfor the Lord seide to Sathan, Lo! alle thingis, whiche he hath, ben in thin hond; oneli stretche thou not forth thin hond in to hym. And Sathan yede out fro the face of the Lord.
and to say LORD to(wards) [the] Satan behold all which to/for him in/on/with hand your except to(wards) him not to send: reach hand your and to come out: come [the] Satan from from with face LORD
13 Sotheli whanne in sum dai `hise sones and douytris eeten, and drunken wiyn in the hows of her firste gendrid brothir,
and to be [the] day and son: child his and daughter his to eat and to drink wine in/on/with house: home brother: male-sibling their [the] firstborn
14 a messanger cam to Job, `whiche messanger seide, Oxis eriden, and femal assis `weren lesewid bisidis tho;
and messenger to come (in): come to(wards) Job and to say [the] cattle to be to plow/plot and [the] she-ass to pasture upon hand: to their
15 and Sabeis felden yn, and token awey alle thingis, and `smytiden the children with swerd; and Y aloone ascapide for to telle to thee.
and to fall: fall Sheba and to take: take them and [obj] [the] youth to smite to/for lip: edge sword and to escape [emph?] except I to/for alone me to/for to tell to/for you
16 And whanne he spak yit, anothir cam, and seide, Fier of God cam doun fro heuene, and wastide scheep, and `children touchid; and Y aloone ascapide for to telle `to thee.
still this to speak: speak and this to come (in): come and to say fire God to fall: fall from [the] heaven and to burn: burn in/on/with flock and in/on/with youth and to eat them and to escape [emph?] except I to/for alone me to/for to tell to/for you
17 But yit the while he spak, also anothir cam, and seide, Caldeis maden thre cumpenyes, and assailiden the camels, and token tho awei, and thei smytiden `also the children with swerd; and Y aloone ascapide to telle to thee.
still this to speak: speak and this to come (in): come and to say Chaldea to set: make three head: group and to strip upon [the] camel and to take: take them and [obj] [the] youth to smite to/for lip: edge sword and to escape [emph?] except I to/for alone me to/for to tell to/for you
18 And yit he spak, and, lo! anothir entride, and seide, While thi sones and douytris eeten, and drunken wiyn in the hows of her firste gendrid brothir,
till this to speak: speak and this to come (in): come and to say son: child your and daughter your to eat and to drink wine in/on/with house: home brother: male-sibling their [the] firstborn
19 a greet wynde felde yn sudenli fro the coost of desert, and schook foure corneris of the hows, `which felde doun, and oppresside thi children, and thei ben deed; and Y aloone fledde to telle to thee.
and behold spirit: breath great: large to come (in): come from side: beyond [the] wilderness and to touch in/on/with four corner [the] house: home and to fall: fall upon [the] youth and to die and to escape [emph?] except I to/for alone me to/for to tell to/for you
20 Thanne Joob roos, and to-rente hise clothis, and `with pollid heed he felde doun on the erthe, and worschipide God,
and to arise: rise Job and to tear [obj] robe his and to shear [obj] head his and to fall: fall land: soil [to] and to bow
21 and seide, Y yede nakid out of the wombe of my modir, Y schal turne ayen nakid thidur; the Lord yaf, the Lord took awei; as it pleside the Lord, so `it is doon; the name of the Lord be blessid.
and to say naked (to come out: produce *Q(k)*) from belly: womb mother my and naked to return: return there [to] LORD to give: give and LORD to take: take to be name LORD to bless
22 In alle these thingis Joob synnede not in hise lippis, nether spak ony fonned thing ayens God.
in/on/with all this not to sin Job and not to give: give folly to/for God