Job 25

1 Forsothe Baldach Suytes answeride, and seide,

Then Baldad the Sauchite answered and said,

2 Power and drede is anentis hym, that is, God, that makith acordyng in hise hiye thingis.

What beginning or fear is his—even he that makes all things in the highest?

3 Whether noumbre is of hise knyytis? and on whom schyneth not his liyt?

For let none think that there is a respite for robbers: and upon whom will there not come a snare from him?

4 Whether a man comparisound to God mai be iustified, ether borun of a womman mai appere cleene?

For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?

5 Lo! also the moone schyneth not, and sterris ben not cleene in `his siyt;

If he gives an order to the moon, then it shines not; and the stars are not pure before him.

6 hou miche more a man rot, and the sone of a man a worm, is vncleene `and vile, if he is comparisound to God.

But alas! man is corruption, and the son of man a worm.