Job 22
1 Forsothe Eliphat Themanytes answeride, and seide,
Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered, and sayde,
2 Whether a man, yhe, whanne he is of perfit kunnyng, mai be comparisound to God?
May a man be profitable vnto God, as he that is wise, may be profitable to himselfe?
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 thing vnto the Almightie, that thou art righteous? or is it profitable to him, that thou makest thy wayes vpright?
4 Whether he schal drede, and schal repreue thee, and schal come with thee in to doom,
Is it for feare of thee that he will accuse thee? or go with thee into iudgement?
5 and not for thi ful myche malice, and thi wickidnessis with out noumbre, `these peynes bifelden iustli to thee?
Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable?
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 the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked.
7 Thou yauest not watir to the feynt man; and thou withdrowist breed fro the hungri man.
To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie.
8 In the strengthe of thin arm thou haddist the lond in possessioun; and thou moost myyti heldist it.
But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it.
9 Thou leftist widewis voide; and al to-brakist the schuldris of fadirles children.
Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, and the armes of the fatherles were broken.
10 Therfor thou art cumpassid with snaris; and sodeyn drede disturblith thee.
Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shall suddenly trouble 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 darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee.
12 Whether thou thenkist, that God is hiyere than heuene, and is enhaunsid aboue the coppe of sterris?
Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are.
13 And thou seist, What sotheli knowith God? and, He demeth as bi derknesse.
But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude?
14 A cloude is his hidyng place, and he biholdith not oure thingis, and he `goith aboute the herris of heuene.
The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen.
15 Whether thou coueitist to kepe the path of worldis, which wickid men han ofte go?
Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked?
16 Whiche weren takun awei bifor her tyme, and the flood distriede the foundement of hem.
Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed:
17 Whiche seiden to God, Go thou awei fro vs; and as if Almyyti God may do no thing, thei gessiden hym,
Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, and asked what the Almightie could do for them.
18 whanne he hadde fillid her housis with goodis; the sentence of whiche men be fer fro me.
Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me.
19 Iust men schulen se, and schulen be glad; and an innocent man schal scorne hem.
The righteous shall see them, and shall reioyce, and the innocent shall laugh them to scorne.
20 Whether the reisyng of hem is not kit doun, and fier schal deuoure the relifs of hem?
Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them.
21 Therfor assente thou to God, and haue thou pees; and bi these thingis thou schalt haue best fruytis.
Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie.
22 Take thou the lawe of his mouth, and sette thou hise wordis in thin herte.
Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart.
23 If thou turnest ayen to Almyyti God, thou schalt be bildid; and thou schalt make wickidnesse fer fro thi tabernacle.
If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle.
24 He schal yyue a flynt for erthe, and goldun strondis for a flynt.
Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers.
25 And Almyyti God schal be ayens thin enemyes; and siluer schal be gaderid togidere to thee.
Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer.
26 Thanne on Almyyti God thou schalt flowe with delicis; and thou schalt reise thi face to God.
And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God.
27 Thou schalt preye hym, and he schal here thee; and thou schalt yelde thi vowis.
Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt render thy vowes.
28 Thou schalt deme a thing, and it schal come to thee; and lyyt schal schyne in thi weies.
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes.
29 For he that is mekid, schal be in glorie; and he that bowith doun hise iyen, schal be saued.
When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person.
30 An innocent schal be saued; sotheli he schal be saued in the clennesse of hise hondis.
The innocent shall deliuer the yland, and it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.
