Job 22
1 Forsothe Eliphat Themanytes answeride, and seide,
And Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2 Whether a man, yhe, whanne he is of perfit kunnyng, mai be comparisound to God?
Can a man be profitable to God? surely it is unto himself that the wise man is profitable.
3 What profitith it to God, if thou art iust? ethir what schalt thou yyue to hym, if thi lijf is without wem?
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if thou art righteous? And is it gain [to him] that thou makest thy ways perfect?
4 Whether he schal drede, and schal repreue thee, and schal come with thee in to doom,
Will he reason with thee for fear of thee? Will he enter with thee into judgment?
5 and not for thi ful myche malice, and thi wickidnessis with out noumbre, `these peynes bifelden iustli to thee?
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities without end?
6 For thou hast take awei with out cause the wed of thi britheren; and hast spuylid nakid men of clothis.
For thou hast taken a pledge of thy brother for nought, and stripped off the clothing of the naked.
7 Thou yauest not watir to the feynt man; and thou withdrowist breed fro the hungri man.
Thou hast not given water to the fainting to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry.
8 In the strengthe of thin arm thou haddist the lond in possessioun; and thou moost myyti heldist it.
But the powerful man, he had the land; and the man of high rank dwelt in it.
9 Thou leftist widewis voide; and al to-brakist the schuldris of fadirles children.
Widows hast thou sent empty away, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
10 Therfor thou art cumpassid with snaris; and sodeyn drede disturblith thee.
Therefore snares are round about thee, and sudden fear troubleth thee;
11 And thou gessidist, that thou schuldist not se derknessis; and that thou schuldist not be oppressid with the fersnesse of watris flowyng.
Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and floods of waters cover thee.
12 Whether thou thenkist, that God is hiyere than heuene, and is enhaunsid aboue the coppe of sterris?
Is not God in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they!
13 And thou seist, What sotheli knowith God? and, He demeth as bi derknesse.
And thou sayest, What doth God know? will he judge through the dark cloud?
14 A cloude is his hidyng place, and he biholdith not oure thingis, and he `goith aboute the herris of heuene.
Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh on the vault of the heavens.
15 Whether thou coueitist to kepe the path of worldis, which wickid men han ofte go?
Dost thou mark the ancient path which wicked men have trodden?
16 Whiche weren takun awei bifor her tyme, and the flood distriede the foundement of hem.
Who were carried off before the time, whose foundation was overflowed with a flood;
17 Whiche seiden to God, Go thou awei fro vs; and as if Almyyti God may do no thing, thei gessiden hym,
Who said unto God, Depart from us! and what could the Almighty do to them?
18 whanne he hadde fillid her housis with goodis; the sentence of whiche men be fer fro me.
Yet he filled their houses with good. But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19 Iust men schulen se, and schulen be glad; and an innocent man schal scorne hem.
The righteous see it, and are glad; and the innocent laugh them to scorn:
20 Whether the reisyng of hem is not kit doun, and fier schal deuoure the relifs of hem?
Is not he who rose against us destroyed, and doth not the fire consume his residue?
21 Therfor assente thou to God, and haue thou pees; and bi these thingis thou schalt haue best fruytis.
Reconcile thyself now with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee.
22 Take thou the lawe of his mouth, and sette thou hise wordis in thin herte.
Receive, I pray thee, instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.
23 If thou turnest ayen to Almyyti God, thou schalt be bildid; and thou schalt make wickidnesse fer fro thi tabernacle.
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up. If thou remove unrighteousness far from thy tents,
24 He schal yyue a flynt for erthe, and goldun strondis for a flynt.
And put the precious ore with the dust, and [the gold of] Ophir among the stones of the torrents,
25 And Almyyti God schal be ayens thin enemyes; and siluer schal be gaderid togidere to thee.
Then the Almighty will be thy precious ore, and silver heaped up unto thee;
26 Thanne on Almyyti God thou schalt flowe with delicis; and thou schalt reise thi face to God.
Yea, then shalt thou delight thyself in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God:
27 Thou schalt preye hym, and he schal here thee; and thou schalt yelde thi vowis.
Thou shalt make thy prayer unto him, and he will hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows;
28 Thou schalt deme a thing, and it schal come to thee; and lyyt schal schyne in thi weies.
And thou shalt decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; and light shall shine upon thy ways.
29 For he that is mekid, schal be in glorie; and he that bowith doun hise iyen, schal be saued.
When they are made low, then thou shalt say, Rise up! and he shall save him that is of downcast eyes.
30 An innocent schal be saued; sotheli he schal be saued in the clennesse of hise hondis.
[Even] him that is not innocent shall he deliver; yea, he shall be delivered by the pureness of thy hands.
