Job 22
1 Forsothe Eliphat Themanytes answeride, and seide,
and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
2 Whether a man, yhe, whanne he is of perfit kunnyng, mai be comparisound to God?
to/for God be useful great man for be useful upon them be prudent
3 What profitith it to God, if thou art iust? ethir what schalt thou yyue to hym, if thi lijf is without wem?
pleasure to/for Almighty for to justify and if unjust-gain for to finish way: conduct your
4 Whether he schal drede, and schal repreue thee, and schal come with thee in to doom,
from fear your to rebuke you to come (in): come with you in/on/with justice: judgement
5 and not for thi ful myche malice, and thi wickidnessis with out noumbre, `these peynes bifelden iustli to thee?
not distress: evil your many and nothing end to/for iniquity: crime your
6 For thou hast take awei with out cause the wed of thi britheren; and hast spuylid nakid men of clothis.
for to pledge brother: male-sibling your for nothing and garment naked to strip
7 Thou yauest not watir to the feynt man; and thou withdrowist breed fro the hungri man.
not water faint to water: drink and from hungry to withhold food: bread
8 In the strengthe of thin arm thou haddist the lond in possessioun; and thou moost myyti heldist it.
and man arm to/for him [the] land: country/planet and to lift: kindness face: kindness to dwell in/on/with her
9 Thou leftist widewis voide; and al to-brakist the schuldris of fadirles children.
widow to send: depart emptily and arm orphan to crush
10 Therfor thou art cumpassid with snaris; and sodeyn drede disturblith thee.
upon so around you snare and to dismay you dread suddenly
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 not to see: see and abundance water to cover you
12 Whether thou thenkist, that God is hiyere than heuene, and is enhaunsid aboue the coppe of sterris?
not god height heaven and to see: behold! head: top star for to exalt
13 And thou seist, What sotheli knowith God? and, He demeth as bi derknesse.
and to say what? to know God about/through/for cloud to judge
14 A cloude is his hidyng place, and he biholdith not oure thingis, and he `goith aboute the herris of heuene.
cloud secrecy to/for him and not to see: see and circle heaven to go: walk
15 Whether thou coueitist to kepe the path of worldis, which wickid men han ofte go?
way forever: antiquity to keep: obey which to tread man evil: wickedness
16 Whiche weren takun awei bifor her tyme, and the flood distriede the foundement of hem.
which to seize and not time river to pour: pour foundation their
17 Whiche seiden to God, Go thou awei fro vs; and as if Almyyti God may do no thing, thei gessiden hym,
[the] to say to/for God to turn aside: depart from us and what? to work Almighty to/for them
18 whanne he hadde fillid her housis with goodis; the sentence of whiche men be fer fro me.
and he/she/it to fill house: home their good and counsel wicked to remove from me
19 Iust men schulen se, and schulen be glad; and an innocent man schal scorne hem.
to see: see righteous and to rejoice and innocent to mock to/for them
20 Whether the reisyng of hem is not kit doun, and fier schal deuoure the relifs of hem?
if: surely yes not to hide adversary our and remainder their to eat fire
21 Therfor assente thou to God, and haue thou pees; and bi these thingis thou schalt haue best fruytis.
be useful please with him and to ally in/on/with them to come (in): come you welfare
22 Take thou the lawe of his mouth, and sette thou hise wordis in thin herte.
to take: recieve please from lip his instruction and to set: put word his in/on/with heart your
23 If thou turnest ayen to Almyyti God, thou schalt be bildid; and thou schalt make wickidnesse fer fro thi tabernacle.
if to return: return till Almighty to build to remove injustice from tent your
24 He schal yyue a flynt for erthe, and goldun strondis for a flynt.
and to set: put upon dust gold and in/on/with rock torrent: river Ophir
25 And Almyyti God schal be ayens thin enemyes; and siluer schal be gaderid togidere to thee.
and to be Almighty gold your and silver: money peak to/for you
26 Thanne on Almyyti God thou schalt flowe with delicis; and thou schalt reise thi face to God.
for then upon Almighty to delight and to lift: kindness to(wards) god face your
27 Thou schalt preye hym, and he schal here thee; and thou schalt yelde thi vowis.
to pray to(wards) him and to hear: hear you and vow your to complete
28 Thou schalt deme a thing, and it schal come to thee; and lyyt schal schyne in thi weies.
and to cut word and to arise: establish to/for you and upon way: conduct your to shine light
29 For he that is mekid, schal be in glorie; and he that bowith doun hise iyen, schal be saued.
for to abase and to say pride and lowly eye to save
30 An innocent schal be saued; sotheli he schal be saued in the clennesse of hise hondis.
to escape not innocent and to escape in/on/with cleanness palm your
