Job 33
1 And yet, I pray thee, O Job, Hear my speech and [to] all my words give ear.
Therfor, Joob, here thou my spechis, and herkene alle my wordis.
2 Lo, I pray thee, I have opened my mouth, My tongue hath spoken in the palate.
Lo! Y haue openyd my mouth, my tunge schal speke in my chekis.
3 Of the uprightness of my heart [are] my sayings, And knowledge have my lips clearly spoken.
Of symple herte ben my wordis, and my lippis schulen speke clene sentence.
4 The Spirit of God hath made me, And the breath of the Mighty doth quicken me.
The spirit of God made me, and the brething of Almyyti God quykenyde me.
5 If thou art able — answer me, Set in array before me — station thyself.
If thou maist, answere thou to me, and stoonde thou ayens my face.
6 Lo, I [am], according to thy word, for God, From the clay I — I also, have been formed.
Lo! God made me as and thee; and also Y am formyd of the same cley.
7 Lo, my terror doth not frighten thee, And my burden on thee is not heavy.
Netheles my myracle make thee not afeerd, and myn eloquence be not greuouse to thee.
8 Surely — thou hast said in mine ears, And the sounds of words I hear:
Therfor thou seidist in myn eeris, and Y herde the vois of thi wordis;
9 'Pure [am] I, without transgression, Innocent [am] I, and I have no iniquity.
Y am cleene, and with out gilt, and vnwemmed, and wickidnesse is not in me.
10 Lo, occasions against me He doth find, He doth reckon me for an enemy to Him,
`For God foond querels in me, therfor he demyde me enemy to hym silf.
11 He doth put in the stocks my feet, He doth watch all my paths.'
He hath set my feet in a stok; he kepte alle my pathis.
12 Lo, [in] this thou hast not been righteous, I answer thee, that greater is God than man.
Therfor this thing it is, in which thou art not maad iust; Y schal answere to thee, that God is more than man.
13 Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When [for] all His matters He answereth not?
Thou stryuest ayenus God, that not at alle wordis he answeride to thee.
14 For once doth God speak, and twice, (He doth not behold it.)
God spekith onys, and the secounde tyme he rehersith not the same thing.
15 In a dream — a vision of night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed.
God spekith bi a dreem in the visioun of nyyt, whanne sleep fallith on men, and thei slepen in the bed.
16 Then He uncovereth the ear of men, And for their instruction sealeth:
Thanne he openith the eeris of men, and he techith hem, `and techith prudence;
17 To turn aside man [from] doing, And pride from man He concealeth.
that he turne awei a man fro these thingis whiche he made, and delyuere hym fro pride; delyuerynge his soule fro corrupcioun,
18 He keepeth back his soul from corruption, And his life from passing away by a dart.
and his lijf, that it go not in to swerd.
19 And he hath been reproved With pain on his bed, And the strife of his bones [is] enduring.
Also God blameth a synnere bi sorewe in the bed, and makith alle the boonys of hym `to fade.
20 And his life hath nauseated bread, And his soul desirable food.
Breed is maad abhomynable to hym in his lijf, and mete desirable `bifor to his soule.
21 His flesh is consumed from being seen, And high are his bones, they were not seen!
His fleisch schal faile for rot, and hise boonys, that weren hilid, schulen be maad nakid.
22 And draw near to the pit doth his soul, And his life to those causing death.
His soule schal neiye to corrupcioun, and his lijf to thingis `bryngynge deeth.
23 If there is by him a messenger, An interpreter — one of a thousand, To declare for man his uprightness:
If an aungel, oon of a thousynde, is spekynge for hym, that he telle the equyte of man, God schal haue mercy on hym,
24 Then He doth favour him and saith, 'Ransom him from going down to the pit, I have found an atonement.'
and schal seie, Delyuere thou hym, that he go not doun in to corrupcioun; Y haue founde in what thing Y schal do merci to hym.
25 Fresher [is] his flesh than a child's, He returneth to the days of his youth.
His fleisch is wastid of turmentis; turne he ayen to the daies of his yonge wexynge age.
26 He maketh supplication unto God, And He accepteth him. And he seeth His face with shouting, And He returneth to man His righteousness.
He schal biseche God, and he schal be quemeful to hym; and he schal se his face in hertly ioye, and he schal yelde to man his riytfulnesse.
27 He looketh on men, and saith, 'I sinned, And uprightness I have perverted, And it hath not been profitable to me.
He schal biholde men, and he schal seie, Y haue synned, and verili Y haue trespassid; and Y haue not resseyued, as Y was worthi.
28 He hath ransomed my soul From going over into the pit, And my life on the light looketh.'
For he delyueride his soule, that it schulde not go in to perischyng, but that he lyuynge schulde se liyt.
29 Lo, all these doth God work, Twice — thrice with man,
Lo! God worchith alle these thingis in thre tymes bi alle men;
30 To bring back his soul from the pit, To be enlightened with the light of the living.
that he ayen clepe her soulis fro corrupcioun, and liytne in the liyt of lyuynge men.
31 Attend, O Job, hearken to me, Keep silent, and I — I do speak.
Thou, Joob, perseyue, and here me, and be thou stille, the while Y speke.
32 If there are words — answer me, Speak, for I have a desire to justify thee.
Sotheli if thou hast what thou schalt speke, answere thou to me, speke thou; for Y wole, that thou appere iust.
33 If there are not — hearken thou to me, Keep silent, and I teach thee wisdom.
That if thou hast not, here thou me; be thou stille, and Y schal teche thee wisdom.
