Job 4
1 Forsothe Eliphat Themanytes answeride, and seide,
and to answer Eliphaz [the] Temanite and to say
2 If we bigynnen to speke to thee, in hap thou schalt take it heuyli; but who may holde a word conseyued?
to test: try word to(wards) you be weary and to restrain in/on/with speech who? be able
3 Lo! thou hast tauyt ful many men, and thou hast strengthid hondis maad feynt.
behold to discipline many and hand weak to strengthen: strengthen
4 Thi wordis confermyden men doutynge, and thou coumfortidist knees tremblynge.
to stumble to arise: establish [emph?] speech your and knee to bow to strengthen
5 But now a wounde is comun on thee, and thou hast failid; it touchide thee, and thou art disturblid.
for now to come (in): come to(wards) you and be weary to touch till you and to dismay
6 Where is thi drede, thi strengthe, and thi pacience, and the perfeccioun of thi weies?
not fear your confidence your hope your and integrity way: conduct your
7 Y biseche thee, haue thou mynde, what innocent man perischide euere, ethir whanne riytful men weren doon awei?
to remember please who? he/she/it innocent to perish and where? upright to hide
8 Certis rathir Y siy hem, that worchen wickidnesse, and sowen sorewis,
like/as as which to see: see to plow/plot evil: wickedness and to sow trouble to reap him
9 and repen tho, to haue perischid bi God blowynge, and to be wastid bi the spirit of his ire.
from breath god to perish and from spirit: breath face: anger his to end: destroy
10 The roryng of a lioun, and the vois of a lionesse, and the teeth of `whelpis of liouns ben al to-brokun.
roaring lion and voice lion and tooth lion to break
11 Tigris perischide, for sche hadde not prey; and the whelpis of a lioun ben distried.
lion to perish from without prey and son: young animal lion to separate
12 Certis an hid word was seid to me, and myn eere took as theueli the veynes of priuy noise therof.
and to(wards) me word to steal and to take: recieve ear my whisper from him
13 In the hidousnesse of `nyytis siyt, whanne heuy sleep is wont to occupie men,
in/on/with disquietings from vision night in/on/with to fall: fall deep sleep upon human
14 drede and tremblyng helde me; and alle my boonys weren aferd.
dread to encounter: toward me and trembling and abundance bone my to dread
15 And whanne the spirit `yede in my presence, the heiris of `my fleisch hadden hidousnesse.
and spirit upon face my to pass to bristle up hair flesh my
16 Oon stood, whos chere Y knewe not, an ymage bifor myn iyen; and Y herde a vois as of softe wynd.
to stand: stand and not to recognize appearance his likeness to/for before eye my silence and voice to hear: hear
17 Whether a man schal be maad iust in comparisoun of God? ethir whethir a man schal be clennere than his Makere?
human from god to justify if: surely no from to make him be pure great man
18 Lo! thei that seruen hym ben not stidefast; and he findith schrewidnesse in hise aungels.
look! in/on/with servant/slave his not be faithful and in/on/with messenger: angel his to set: make error
19 Hou myche more thei that dwellen in housis of cley, that han an ertheli foundement, schulen be wastyd as of a mouyte.
also to dwell house: home clay which in/on/with dust foundation their to crush them to/for face: before moth
20 Fro morewtid til to euentid thei schulen be kit doun; and for no man vndurstondith, thei schulen perische with outen ende.
from morning to/for evening to crush from without to set: consider to/for perpetuity to perish
21 Sotheli thei, that ben residue, schulen be takun awei; thei schulen die, and not in wisdom.
not to set out cord their in/on/with them to die and not in/on/with wisdom
