Job 22
1 And Eliphaz the Temanite answereth and saith: —
Forsothe Eliphat Themanytes answeride, and seide,
2 To God is a man profitable, Because a wise man to himself is profitable?
Whether a man, yhe, whanne he is of perfit kunnyng, mai be comparisound to God?
3 Is it a delight to the Mighty One That thou art righteous? is it gain, That thou makest perfect thy ways?
What profitith it to God, if thou art iust? ethir what schalt thou yyue to hym, if thi lijf is without wem?
4 Because of thy reverence Doth He reason [with] thee? He entereth with thee into judgment:
Whether he schal drede, and schal repreue thee, and schal come with thee in to doom,
5 Is not thy wickedness abundant? And there is no end to thine iniquities.
and not for thi ful myche malice, and thi wickidnessis with out noumbre, `these peynes bifelden iustli to thee?
6 For thou takest a pledge of thy brother for nought, And the garments of the naked Thou dost strip off.
For thou hast take awei with out cause the wed of thi britheren; and hast spuylid nakid men of clothis.
7 Thou causest not the weary to drink water, And from the hungry thou withholdest bread.
Thou yauest not watir to the feynt man; and thou withdrowist breed fro the hungri man.
8 As to the man of arm — he hath the earth, And the accepted of face — he dwelleth in it.
In the strengthe of thin arm thou haddist the lond in possessioun; and thou moost myyti heldist it.
9 Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.
Thou leftist widewis voide; and al to-brakist the schuldris of fadirles children.
10 Therefore round about thee [are] snares, And trouble thee doth fear suddenly.
Therfor thou art cumpassid with snaris; and sodeyn drede disturblith thee.
11 Or darkness — thou dost not see, And abundance of waters doth cover thee.
And thou gessidist, that thou schuldist not se derknessis; and that thou schuldist not be oppressid with the fersnesse of watris flowyng.
12 Is not God high [in] heaven? And see the summit of the stars, That they are high.
Whether thou thenkist, that God is hiyere than heuene, and is enhaunsid aboue the coppe of sterris?
13 And thou hast said, 'What — hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?
And thou seist, What sotheli knowith God? and, He demeth as bi derknesse.
14 Thick clouds [are] a secret place to Him, And He doth not see;' And the circle of the heavens He walketh habitually,
A cloude is his hidyng place, and he biholdith not oure thingis, and he `goith aboute the herris of heuene.
15 The path of the age dost thou observe, That men of iniquity have trodden?
Whether thou coueitist to kepe the path of worldis, which wickid men han ofte go?
16 Who have been cut down unexpectedly, A flood is poured out on their foundation.
Whiche weren takun awei bifor her tyme, and the flood distriede the foundement of hem.
17 Those saying to God, 'Turn aside from us,' And what doth the Mighty One to them?
Whiche seiden to God, Go thou awei fro vs; and as if Almyyti God may do no thing, thei gessiden hym,
18 And he hath filled their houses [with] good: (And the counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
whanne he hadde fillid her housis with goodis; the sentence of whiche men be fer fro me.
19 See do the righteous and they rejoice, And the innocent mocketh at them,
Iust men schulen se, and schulen be glad; and an innocent man schal scorne hem.
20 'Surely our substance hath not been cut off, And their excellency hath fire consumed.'
Whether the reisyng of hem is not kit doun, and fier schal deuoure the relifs of hem?
21 Acquaint thyself, I pray thee, with Him, And be at peace, Thereby thine increase [is] good.
Therfor assente thou to God, and haue thou pees; and bi these thingis thou schalt haue best fruytis.
22 Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.
Take thou the lawe of his mouth, and sette thou hise wordis in thin herte.
23 If thou dost return unto the Mighty Thou art built up, Thou puttest iniquity far from thy tents.
If thou turnest ayen to Almyyti God, thou schalt be bildid; and thou schalt make wickidnesse fer fro thi tabernacle.
24 So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering.
He schal yyue a flynt for erthe, and goldun strondis for a flynt.
25 And the Mighty hath been thy defence, And silver [is] strength to thee.
And Almyyti God schal be ayens thin enemyes; and siluer schal be gaderid togidere to thee.
26 For then on the Mighty thou delightest thyself, And dost lift up unto God thy face,
Thanne on Almyyti God thou schalt flowe with delicis; and thou schalt reise thi face to God.
27 Thou dost make supplication unto Him, And He doth hear thee, And thy vows thou completest.
Thou schalt preye hym, and he schal here thee; and thou schalt yelde thi vowis.
28 And thou decreest a saying, And it is established to thee, And on thy ways hath light shone.
Thou schalt deme a thing, and it schal come to thee; and lyyt schal schyne in thi weies.
29 For they have made low, And thou sayest, 'Lift up.' And the bowed down of eyes he saveth.
For he that is mekid, schal be in glorie; and he that bowith doun hise iyen, schal be saued.
30 He delivereth the not innocent, Yea, he hath been delivered By the cleanness of thy hands.
An innocent schal be saued; sotheli he schal be saued in the clennesse of hise hondis.
