Job 23

1 Sotheli Joob answeride, and seide,

and to answer Job and to say

2 Now also my word is in bitternesse, and the hond of my wounde is agreggid on my weilyng.

also [the] day rebellion complaint my hand my to honor: heavy upon sighing my

3 Who yyueth to me, that Y knowe, and fynde hym, and come `til to his trone?

who? to give: if only! to know and to find him to come (in): come till place his

4 Y schal sette doom bifor hym, and Y schal fille my mouth with blamyngis;

to arrange to/for face: before his justice and lip my to fill argument

5 that Y kunne the wordis, whiche he schal answere to me, and that Y vnderstonde, what he schal speke to me.

to know speech to answer me and to understand what? to say to/for me

6 Y nyle, that he stryue with me bi greet strengthe, nether oppresse me with the heuynesse of his greetnesse.

in/on/with abundance strength to contend with me me not surely he/she/it to set: consider in/on/with me

7 Sette he forth equite ayens me, and my doom come perfitli to victorie.

there upright to rebuke with him and to escape to/for perpetuity from to judge me

8 If Y go to the eest, God apperith not; if Y go to the west, Y schal not vndurstonde hym; if Y go to the left side,

look! front: forward to go: went and nothing he and back and not to understand to/for him

9 what schal Y do? Y schal not take hym; if Y turne me to the riyt side, Y schal not se hym.

left in/on/with to make: do he and not to see to turn aside right and not to see: see

10 But he knowith my weie, and he schal preue me as gold, that passith thorouy fier.

for to know way: conduct with me me to test me like/as gold to come out: come

11 My foot suede hise steppis; Y kepte his weie, and Y bowide not awey fro it.

in/on/with step his to grasp foot my way: conduct his to keep: obey and not to stretch

12 Y yede not awei fro the comaundementis of hise lippis; and Y hidde in my bosum the wordis of his mouth.

commandment lips his and not to remove from statute: portion my to treasure word lip his

13 For he is aloone, and no man may turne awei hise thouytis; and what euer thing he wolde, his wille dide this thing.

and he/she/it in/on/with one and who? to return: turn back him and soul: myself his to desire and to make: do

14 Whanne he hath fillid his wille in me, also many othere lijk thingis ben redi to hym.

for to complete statute: portion my and like/as them many with him

15 And therfor Y am disturblid of his face, and Y biholdynge hym am anguyschid for drede.

upon so from face his to dismay to understand and to dread from him

16 God hath maad neische myn herte, and Almyyti God hath disturblid me.

and God be tender heart my and Almighty to dismay me

17 For Y perischide not for derknessis neiyynge; nethir myist hilide my face.

for not to destroy from face: before darkness and from face my to cover darkness