Job 16
1 Forsothe Joob answeride, and seide, Y `herde ofte siche thingis;
and to answer Job and to say
2 alle ye ben heuy coumfortouris.
to hear: hear like/as these many to be sorry: comfort trouble all your
3 Whether wordis ful of wynd schulen haue an ende? ether ony thing is diseseful to thee, if thou spekist?
end to/for word spirit: breath or what? be sick you for to answer
4 Also Y myyte speke thingis lijk to you, and `Y wolde, that youre soule were for my soule; and Y wolde coumfort you by wordis, and Y wolde moue myn heed on you;
also I like/as you to speak: speak if there soul: myself your underneath: instead soul: myself my to unite upon you in/on/with speech and to shake upon you in/at/by head my
5 Y wolde make you stronge bi my mouth, and Y wolde moue lippis as sparynge you.
to strengthen you in/at/by lip my and solace lips my to withhold
6 But what schal Y do? If Y speke, my sorewe restith not; and if Y am stille, it goith not awei fro me.
if to speak: speak not to withhold pain my and to cease what? from me to go: went
7 But now my sorewe hath oppressid me, and alle my lymes ben dryuun in to nouyt.
surely now be weary me be desolate: destroyed all congregation my
8 My ryuelyngis seien witnessyng ayens me, and a fals spekere is reisid ayens my face, and ayenseith me.
and to seize me to/for witness to be and to arise: attack in/on/with me lie my in/on/with face my to answer
9 He gaderide togidere his woodnesse in me, and he manaasside me, and gnastide ayens me with his teeth; myn enemye bihelde me with ferdful iyen.
face: anger his to tear and to hate me to grind upon me in/on/with tooth his enemy my to sharpen eye his to/for me
10 Thei openyden her mouthis on me, and thei seiden schenschip, and smytiden my cheke; and thei ben fillid with my peynes.
to open upon me in/on/with lip their in/on/with reproach to smite jaw my unitedness upon me to fill [emph?]
11 God hath closid me togidere at the wickid, and hath youe me to the hondis of wickid men.
to shut me God to(wards) unjust one and upon hand wicked to wring me
12 Y thilke riche man and famouse sum tyme, am al to brokun sudeynli; `he helde my nol; he hath broke me, and hath set me as in to a signe.
at ease to be and to break me and to grasp in/on/with neck my and to shatter me and to arise: establish me to/for him to/for guardhouse
13 He hath cumpasside me with hise speris, he woundide togidere my leendis; he sparide not, and schedde out myn entrails in to the erthe.
to turn: surround upon me archer his to cleave kidney my and not to spare to pour: pour to/for land: soil gall my
14 He beet me with wounde on wounde; he as a giaunt felde in on me.
to break through me breach upon face of breach to run: run upon me like/as mighty man
15 Y sewide togidere a sak on my skyn; and Y hilide my fleisch with aische.
sackcloth to sew upon skin my and to thrust in/on/with dust horn my
16 My face bolnyde of wepynge, and myn iyeliddis wexiden derke.
face my (be red *Q(K)*) from weeping and upon eyelid my shadow
17 Y suffride these thingis with out wickidnesse of myn hond, `that is, werk, whanne Y hadde cleene preieris to God.
upon not violence in/on/with palm my and prayer my pure
18 Erthe, hile thou not my blood, and my cry fynde not in thee a place of hidyng.
land: soil not to cover blood my and not to be place to/for outcry my
19 `For, lo! my witnesse is in heuene; and the knowere of my consience is in hiye places.
also now behold in/on/with heaven witness my and advocate my in/on/with height
20 A! my frendis, ful of wordis, myn iye droppith to God.
to mock me neighbor my to(wards) god to drip eye my
21 And `Y wolde, that a man were demed so with God, as the sone of man is demed with his felowe.
and to rebuke to/for great man with god and son: child man to/for neighbor his
22 `For lo! schorte yeeris passen, and Y go a path, bi which Y schal not turne ayen.
for year number to come and way not to return: return to go: went
