Job 8
1 Sotheli Baldath Suytes answeride, and seide,
Then Bildad the Shuhite answered,
2 Hou longe schalt thou speke siche thingis? The spirit of the word of thi mouth is manyfold.
“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?
3 Whether God supplauntith, `ethir disseyueth, doom, and whether Almyyti God distrieth that, that is iust?
Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
4 Yhe, thouy thi sones synneden ayens hym, and he lefte hem in the hond of her wickidnesse;
If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience.
5 netheles, if thou risist eerli to God, and bisechist `Almyyti God, if thou goist clene and riytful,
If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
6 anoon he schal wake fulli to thee, and schal make pesible the dwellyng place of thi ryytfulnesse;
If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.
7 in so miche that thi formere thingis weren litil, and that thi laste thingis be multiplied greetli.
Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would greatly increase.
8 For whi, axe thou the formere generacioun, and seke thou diligentli the mynde of fadris.
“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning 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 our days on earth are a shadow.)
10 And thei schulen teche thee, thei schulen speke to thee, and of her herte thei schulen bring forth spechis.
Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
11 Whether a rusche may lyue with out moysture? ethir a spier `may wexe with out watir?
“Can the papyrus grow up without mire? Can the rushes grow without water?
12 Whanne it is yit in the flour, nethir is takun with hond, it wexeth drie bifor alle erbis.
While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.
13 So the weies of alle men, that foryeten God; and the hope of an ypocrite schal perische.
So are the paths of all who forget God. The hope of the godless man will perish,
14 His cowardise schal not plese hym, and his trist schal be as a web of yreyns.
whose confidence will break apart, whose trust is a spider’s web.
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 will lean on his house, but it will not stand. He will cling to it, but it will not endure.
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 green before the sun. His shoots go out along his garden.
17 Rootis therof schulen be maad thicke on an heep of stoonys, and it schal dwelle among stoonys.
His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the 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.
If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’
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. Out of the earth, others will spring.
20 Forsothe God schal not caste a wei a symple man, nethir schal dresse hond to wickid men;
“Behold, God will not cast away a blameless man, neither will he uphold the evildoers.
21 til thi mouth be fillid with leiytir, and thi lippis with hertli song.
He will still fill your mouth with laughter, your lips with shouting.
22 Thei that haten thee schulen be clothid with schenschip; and the tabernacle of wickid men schal not stonde.
Those who hate you will be clothed with shame. The tent of the wicked will be no more.”
