Job 5
1 Therfor clepe thou, if `ony is that schal answere thee, and turne thou to summe of seyntis.
Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn?
2 Wrathfulnesse sleeth `a fonned man, and enuye sleeth a litil child.
For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,
3 Y siy a fool with stidefast rote, and Y curside his feirnesse anoon.
I — I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,
4 Hise sones schulen be maad fer fro helthe, and thei schulen be defoulid in the yate, and `noon schal be that schal delyuere hem.
Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
5 Whos ripe corn an hungri man schal ete, and an armed man schal rauysche hym, and thei, that thirsten, schulen drynke hise richessis.
Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.
6 No thing is doon in erthe with out cause, and sorewe schal not go out of the erthe.
For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.
7 A man is borun to labour, and a brid to fliyt.
For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
8 Wherfor Y schal biseche the Lord, and Y schal sette my speche to my God.
Yet I — I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,
9 That makith grete thingis, and that moun not be souyt out, and wondurful thingis with out noumbre.
Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.
10 Which yyueth reyn on the face of erthe, and moistith alle thingis with watris.
Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.
11 Which settith meke men an hiy, and reisith with helthe hem that morenen.
To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high [in] safety.
12 Which distrieth the thouytis of yuel willid men, that her hondis moun not fille tho thingis that thei bigunnen.
Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
13 Which takith cautelouse men in the felnesse `of hem, and distrieth the counsel of schrewis.
Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,
14 Bi dai thei schulen renne in to derknessis, and as in nyyt so thei schulen grope in myddai.
By day they meet darkness, And as night — they grope at noon.
15 Certis God schal make saaf a nedi man fro the swerd of her mouth, and a pore man fro the hond of the violent, `ethir rauynour.
And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,
16 And hope schal be to a nedi man, but wickidnesse schal drawe togidere his mouth.
And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.
17 Blessid is the man, which is chastisid of the Lord; therfor repreue thou not the blamyng of the Lord.
Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,
18 For he woundith, and doith medicyn; he smytith, and hise hondis schulen make hool.
For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.
19 In sixe tribulaciouns he schal delyuere thee, and in the seuenthe tribulacioun yuel schal not touche thee.
In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.
20 In hungur he schal delyuere thee fro deeth, and in batel fro the power of swerd.
In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.
21 Thou schalt be hid fro the scourge of tunge, and thou schalt not drede myseiste, `ethir wretchidnesse, whanne it cometh.
When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh.
22 In distriyng maad of enemyes and in hungur thou schalt leiye, and thou schalt not drede the beestis of erthe.
At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.
23 But thi couenaunt schal be with the stonys of erthe, and beestis of erthe schulen be pesible to thee.
(For with sons of the field [is] thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.)
24 And thou schalt wite, that thi tabernacle hath pees, and thou visitynge thi fairnesse schalt not do synne.
And thou hast known that thy tent [is] peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,
25 And thou schalt wite also, that thi seed schal be many fold, and thi generacioun schal be as an erbe of erthe.
And hast known that numerous [is] Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth;
26 In abundaunce thou schalt go in to the sepulcre, as an heep of wheete is borun in his tyme.
Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.
27 Lo! this is so, as we han souyt; which thing herd, trete thou in minde.
Lo, this — we searched it out — it [is] right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!
