Job 8
1 Sotheli Baldath Suytes answeride, and seide,
And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: —
2 Hou longe schalt thou speke siche thingis? The spirit of the word of thi mouth is manyfold.
Till when dost thou speak these things? And a strong wind — sayings of thy mouth?
3 Whether God supplauntith, `ethir disseyueth, doom, and whether Almyyti God distrieth that, that is iust?
Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?
4 Yhe, thouy thi sones synneden ayens hym, and he lefte hem in the hond of her wickidnesse;
If thy sons have sinned before Him, And He doth send them away, By the hand of their transgression,
5 netheles, if thou risist eerli to God, and bisechist `Almyyti God, if thou goist clene and riytful,
If thou dost seek early unto God, And unto the Mighty makest supplication,
6 anoon he schal wake fulli to thee, and schal make pesible the dwellyng place of thi ryytfulnesse;
If pure and upright thou [art], Surely now He waketh for thee, And hath completed The habitation of thy righteousness.
7 in so miche that thi formere thingis weren litil, and that thi laste thingis be multiplied greetli.
And thy beginning hath been small, And thy latter end is very great.
8 For whi, axe thou the formere generacioun, and seke thou diligentli the mynde of fadris.
For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,
9 For we ben men of yistirdai, and `kunnen not; for oure daies ben as schadewe on the erthe.
(For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.)
10 And thei schulen teche thee, thei schulen speke to thee, and of her herte thei schulen bring forth spechis.
Do they not shew thee — speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?
11 Whether a rusche may lyue with out moysture? ethir a spier `may wexe with out watir?
'Doth a rush wise without mire? A reed increase without water?
12 Whanne it is yit in the flour, nethir is takun with hond, it wexeth drie bifor alle erbis.
While it [is] in its budding — uncropped, Even before any herb it withereth.
13 So the weies of alle men, that foryeten God; and the hope of an ypocrite schal perische.
So [are] the paths of all forgetting God, And the hope of the profane doth perish,
14 His cowardise schal not plese hym, and his trist schal be as a web of yreyns.
Whose confidence is loathsome, And the house of a spider his trust.
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 on his house — and it standeth not: He taketh hold on it — and it abideth not.
16 The rusche semeth moist, bifor that the sunne come; and in the risyng of the sunne the seed therof schal go out.
Green he [is] before the sun, And over his garden his branch goeth out.
17 Rootis therof schulen be maad thicke on an heep of stoonys, and it schal dwelle among stoonys.
By a heap his roots are wrapped, A house of stones he looketh for.
18 If a man drawith it out of `his place, his place schal denye it, and schal seie, Y knowe thee not.
If [one] doth destroy him from his place, Then it hath feigned concerning him, I have not seen thee!
19 For this is the gladnesse of his weie, that eft othere ruschis springe out of the erthe.
Lo, this [is] the joy of his way, And from the dust others spring up.'
20 Forsothe God schal not caste a wei a symple man, nethir schal dresse hond to wickid men;
Lo, God doth not reject the perfect, Nor taketh hold on the hand of evil doers.
21 til thi mouth be fillid with leiytir, and thi lippis with hertli song.
While he filleth with laughter thy mouth, And thy lips with shouting,
22 Thei that haten thee schulen be clothid with schenschip; and the tabernacle of wickid men schal not stonde.
Those hating thee do put on shame, And the tent of the wicked is not!
