Job 8
1 Sotheli Baldath Suytes answeride, and seide,
Then answered Bildad the Shuchite, and said,
2 Hou longe schalt thou speke siche thingis? The spirit of the word of thi mouth is manyfold.
How long wilt thou speak these things? and [let] like a mighty wind be the words of thy mouth?
3 Whether God supplauntith, `ethir disseyueth, doom, and whether Almyyti God distrieth that, that is iust?
Should God pervert justice? or should the Almighty pervert righteousness?
4 Yhe, thouy thi sones synneden ayens hym, and he lefte hem in the hond of her wickidnesse;
If thy children have sinned against him, then did he send them off through the means of their transgression.
5 netheles, if thou risist eerli to God, and bisechist `Almyyti God, if thou goist clene and riytful,
If thou wilt earnestly seek for God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;
6 anoon he schal wake fulli to thee, and schal make pesible the dwellyng place of thi ryytfulnesse;
If thou become pure and upright: surely then will he watch over thee, and restore thy righteous habitation.
7 in so miche that thi formere thingis weren litil, and that thi laste thingis be multiplied greetli.
And thy beginning will have been small; because thy latter end will grow up greatly.
8 For whi, axe thou the formere generacioun, and seke thou diligentli the mynde of fadris.
For ask, I pray thee, of an earlier generation, and prepare thyself to [stand by] the research of their fathers; —
9 For we ben men of yistirdai, and `kunnen not; for oure daies ben as schadewe on the erthe.
For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because a [mere] shadow are our days upon earth; —
10 And thei schulen teche thee, thei schulen speke to thee, and of her herte thei schulen bring forth spechis.
Behold, these will truly teach thee, they will speak unto thee, and out of their very heart will they bring forth words:
11 Whether a rusche may lyue with out moysture? ethir a spier `may wexe with out watir?
Can the bulrush shoot upward without mire? can the meadow-grass grow up without water?
12 Whanne it is yit in the flour, nethir is takun with hond, it wexeth drie bifor alle erbis.
It is yet in its greenness, not yet cut down, when it withereth before any other grass.
13 So the weies of alle men, that foryeten God; and the hope of an ypocrite schal perische.
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hope of the hypocrite will perish:
14 His cowardise schal not plese hym, and his trist schal be as a web of yreyns.
[It is he] whose trust will be cut off, and but a spider's web is that in which he confideth.
15 He schal leene, `ether reste, on his hows, and it schal not stonde; he schal vndursette it, and it schal not rise togidere.
He leaneth against his house, but it shall not stand: he layeth fast hold on it, but it shall not remain erect.
16 The rusche semeth moist, bifor that the sunne come; and in the risyng of the sunne the seed therof schal go out.
He is in full vigor before the sun, and over his garden his shoots go forth.
17 Rootis therof schulen be maad thicke on an heep of stoonys, and it schal dwelle among stoonys.
His roots are twisted about a stoneheap, he selecteth [for himself] a place of stones.
18 If a man drawith it out of `his place, his place schal denye it, and schal seie, Y knowe thee not.
But when men destroy him from his place, then will it deny him, saying, I have never seen thee.
19 For this is the gladnesse of his weie, that eft othere ruschis springe out of the erthe.
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the [same] dust others will grow up.
20 Forsothe God schal not caste a wei a symple man, nethir schal dresse hond to wickid men;
Behold, God will not reject a perfect man, and will not hold fast by their hand the evil-doers:
21 til thi mouth be fillid with leiytir, and thi lippis with hertli song.
Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with joyful shouting.
22 Thei that haten thee schulen be clothid with schenschip; and the tabernacle of wickid men schal not stonde.
They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the tent of the wicked shall be no more.
