Job 34
1 And Elihu answereth and saith:
And Helyu pronounside, and spak also these thingis,
2 Hear, O wise men, my words, And, O knowing ones, give ear to me.
Wise men, here ye my wordis, and lerned men, herkne ye me; for the eere preueth wordis,
3 For the ear doth try words, And the palate tasteth to eat.
and the throte demeth metis bi taast.
4 Judgment let us choose for ourselves, Let us know among ourselves what [is] good.
Chese we doom to vs; and se we among vs, what is the betere.
5 For Job hath said, 'I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,
For Job seide, Y am iust, and God hath distried my doom.
6 Against my right do I lie? Mortal [is] mine arrow — without transgression.'
For whi lesynge is in demynge me, and myn arowe is violent with out ony synne.
7 Who [is] a man like Job? He drinketh scoffing like water,
Who is a man, as Joob is, that drynkith scornyng as watir?
8 And he hath travelled for company With workers of iniquity, So as to go with men of wickedness.
that goith with men worchynge wickidnesse, and goith with vnfeithful men?
9 For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'
For he seide, A man schal not plese God, yhe, thouy he renneth with God.
10 Therefore, O men of heart, hearken to me; Far be it from God to do wickedness, And [from] the Mighty to do perverseness:
Therfor ye men hertid, `that is, vndurstonde, here ye me; vnpite, `ethir cruelte, be fer fro God, and wickidnesse fro Almyyti God.
11 For the work of man he repayeth to him, And according to the path of each He doth cause him to find.
For he schal yelde the werk of man to hym; and bi the weies of ech man he schal restore to hym.
12 Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment.
For verili God schal not condempne with out cause; nether Almyyti God schal distrie doom.
13 Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?
What othere man hath he ordeyned on the lond? ether whom hath he set on the world, which he made?
14 If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.
If God dressith his herte to hym, he schal drawe to hym silf his spirit and blast.
15 Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.
Ech fleisch schal faile togidere; `and a man schal turne ayen in to aisch.
16 And if [there is] understanding, hear this, Give ear to the voice of my words.
Therfor if thou hast vndurstondyng, here thou that that is seid, and herkne the vois of my speche.
17 Yea, doth one hating justice govern? Or the Most Just dost thou condemn?
Whether he that loueth not doom may be maad hool? and hou condempnest thou so myche him, that is iust?
18 Who hath said to a king — 'Worthless,' Unto princes — 'Wicked?'
Which seith to the kyng, Thou art apostata; which clepith the duykis vnpitouse, `ethir vnfeithful.
19 That hath not accepted the person of princes, Nor hath known the rich before the poor, For a work of His hands [are] all of them.
`Which takith not the persoones of princes, nether knew a tyraunt, whanne he stryuede ayens a pore man; for alle men ben the werk of hise hondis.
20 [In] a moment they die, and at midnight Shake do people, and they pass away, And they remove the mighty without hand.
Thei schulen die sudeynli, and at mydnyyt puplis schulen be troblid, `ethir schulen be bowid, as othere bookis han; and schulen passe, and schulen take `awei `a violent man with out hond.
21 For His eyes [are] on the ways of each, And all his steps He doth see.
For the iyen of God ben on the weies of men, and biholdith alle goyngis of hem.
22 There is no darkness nor death-shade, For workers of iniquity to be hidden there;
No derknessis ben, and no schadewe of deeth is, that thei, that worchen wickidnesse, be hid there;
23 For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment,
for it is `no more in the power of man, that he come to God in to doom.
24 He breaketh the mighty — no searching! And He appointeth others in their stead.
God schal al to-breke many men and vnnoumbrable; and schal make othere men to stonde for hem.
25 Therefore He knoweth their works, And He hath overturned by night, And they are bruised.
For he knowith the werkis of hem; therfor he schal brynge yn niyt, and thei schulen be al to-brokun.
26 As wicked He hath stricken them, In the place of beholders.
He smoot hem, as vnpitouse men, in the place of seinge men.
27 Because that against right They have turned aside from after Him, And none of His ways have considered wisely,
Whiche yeden awei fro hym bi `castyng afore, and nolden vndurstonde alle hise weies.
28 To cause to come in unto Him The cry of the poor, And the cry of the afflicted He heareth.
That thei schulden make the cry of a nedi man to come to hym, and that he schulde here the vois of pore men.
29 And He giveth rest, and who maketh wrong? And hideth the face, and who beholdeth it? And in reference to a nation and to a man, [It is] the same.
For whanne he grauntith pees, who is that condempneth? Sithen he hidith his cheer, who is that seeth hym? And on folkis and on alle men `he hath power `to do siche thingis.
30 From the reigning of a profane man, From the snares of a people;
Which makith `a man ypocrite to regne, for the synnes of the puple.
31 For unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly,
Therfor for Y haue spoke to God, also Y schal not forbede thee.
32 Besides [that which] I see, shew Thou me, If iniquity I have done — I do not add?'
If Y erride, teche thou me; if Y spak wickidnesse, Y schal no more adde.
33 By thee doth He recompense, That thou hast refused — That thou dost choose, and not I? And what thou hast known, speak.
Whether God axith that wickidnesse of thee, for it displeside thee? For thou hast bigunne to speke, and not Y; that if thou knowist ony thing betere, speke thou.
34 Let men of heart say to me, And a wise man is hearkening to me.
Men vndurstondynge, speke to me; and a wise man, here me.
35 Job — not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words [are] not with wisdom.
Forsothe Joob spak folili, and hise wordis sownen not techyng.
36 My Father! let Job be tried — unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,
My fadir, be Joob preuede `til to the ende; ceesse thou not fro the man of wickidnesse,
37 For he doth add to his sin, Transgression among us he vomiteth, And multiplieth his sayings to God.
`that addith blasfemye ouer hise synnes. Be he constreyned among vs in the meene tyme; and thanne bi hise wordis stire he God to the doom.
