Job 5
1 Pray, call, is there any to answer thee? And unto which of the holy ones dost thou turn?
Therfor clepe thou, if `ony is that schal answere thee, and turne thou to summe of seyntis.
2 For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,
Wrathfulnesse sleeth `a fonned man, and enuye sleeth a litil child.
3 I — I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,
Y siy a fool with stidefast rote, and Y curside his feirnesse anoon.
4 Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.
Hise sones schulen be maad fer fro helthe, and thei schulen be defoulid in the yate, and `noon schal be that schal delyuere hem.
5 Whose harvest the hungry doth eat, And even from the thorns taketh it, And the designing swallowed their wealth.
Whos ripe corn an hungri man schal ete, and an armed man schal rauysche hym, and thei, that thirsten, schulen drynke hise richessis.
6 For sorrow cometh not forth from the dust, Nor from the ground springeth up misery.
No thing is doon in erthe with out cause, and sorewe schal not go out of the erthe.
7 For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
A man is borun to labour, and a brid to fliyt.
8 Yet I — I inquire for God, And for God I give my word,
Wherfor Y schal biseche the Lord, and Y schal sette my speche to my God.
9 Doing great things, and there is no searching. Wonderful, till there is no numbering.
That makith grete thingis, and that moun not be souyt out, and wondurful thingis with out noumbre.
10 Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.
Which yyueth reyn on the face of erthe, and moistith alle thingis with watris.
11 To set the low on a high place, And the mourners have been high [in] safety.
Which settith meke men an hiy, and reisith with helthe hem that morenen.
12 Making void thoughts of the subtile, And their hands do not execute wisdom.
Which distrieth the thouytis of yuel willid men, that her hondis moun not fille tho thingis that thei bigunnen.
13 Capturing the wise in their subtilty, And the counsel of wrestling ones was hastened,
Which takith cautelouse men in the felnesse `of hem, and distrieth the counsel of schrewis.
14 By day they meet darkness, And as night — they grope at noon.
Bi dai thei schulen renne in to derknessis, and as in nyyt so thei schulen grope in myddai.
15 And He saveth the wasted from their mouth, And from a strong hand the needy,
Certis God schal make saaf a nedi man fro the swerd of her mouth, and a pore man fro the hond of the violent, `ethir rauynour.
16 And there is hope to the poor, And perverseness hath shut her mouth.
And hope schal be to a nedi man, but wickidnesse schal drawe togidere his mouth.
17 Lo, the happiness of mortal man, God doth reprove him: And the chastisement of the Mighty despise not,
Blessid is the man, which is chastisid of the Lord; therfor repreue thou not the blamyng of the Lord.
18 For He doth pain, and He bindeth up, He smiteth, and His hands heal.
For he woundith, and doith medicyn; he smytith, and hise hondis schulen make hool.
19 In six distresses He delivereth thee, And in seven evil striketh not on thee.
In sixe tribulaciouns he schal delyuere thee, and in the seuenthe tribulacioun yuel schal not touche thee.
20 In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.
In hungur he schal delyuere thee fro deeth, and in batel fro the power of swerd.
21 When the tongue scourgeth thou art hid, And thou art not afraid of destruction, When it cometh.
Thou schalt be hid fro the scourge of tunge, and thou schalt not drede myseiste, `ethir wretchidnesse, whanne it cometh.
22 At destruction and at hunger thou mockest, And of the beast of the earth, Thou art not afraid.
In distriyng maad of enemyes and in hungur thou schalt leiye, and thou schalt not drede the beestis of erthe.
23 (For with sons of the field [is] thy covenant, And the beast of the field Hath been at peace with thee.)
But thi couenaunt schal be with the stonys of erthe, and beestis of erthe schulen be pesible to thee.
24 And thou hast known that thy tent [is] peace, And inspected thy habitation, and errest not,
And thou schalt wite, that thi tabernacle hath pees, and thou visitynge thi fairnesse schalt not do synne.
25 And hast known that numerous [is] Thy seed, And thine offspring as the herb of the earth;
And thou schalt wite also, that thi seed schal be many fold, and thi generacioun schal be as an erbe of erthe.
26 Thou comest in full age unto the grave, As the going up of a stalk in its season.
In abundaunce thou schalt go in to the sepulcre, as an heep of wheete is borun in his tyme.
27 Lo, this — we searched it out — it [is] right, hearken; And thou, know for thyself!
Lo! this is so, as we han souyt; which thing herd, trete thou in minde.
