Job 26
1 Respondens autem Job dixit:
Forsothe Joob answeride, and seide, Whos helpere art thou?
2 Cujus adjutor es? numquid imbecillis? et sustentas brachium ejus qui non est fortis?
whether `of the feble, and susteyneste the arm of hym, which is not strong?
3 Cui dedisti consilium? forsitan illi qui non habet sapientiam: et prudentiam tuam ostendisti plurimam.
To whom hast thou youe counsel? In hap to hym that hath not wisdom; and thou hast schewid ful myche prudence.
4 Quem docere voluisti? nonne eum qui fecit spiramentum?
Ether whom woldist thou teche? whether not hym, that made brething?
5 Ecce gigantes gemunt sub aquis, et qui habitant cum eis.
Lo! giauntis weilen vnder watris, and thei that dwellen with hem.
Helle is nakid bifor hym, and noon hilyng is to perdicioun. (Sheol h7585)
7 Qui extendit aquilonem super vacuum, et appendit terram super nihilum.
Which God stretchith forth the north on voide thing, and hangith the erthe on nouyt.
8 Qui ligat aquas in nubibus suis, ut non erumpant pariter deorsum.
`Which God byndith watris in her cloudis, that tho breke not out togidere dounward.
9 Qui tenet vultum solii sui, et expandit super illud nebulam suam.
`Whych God holdith the cheer of his seete, and spredith abrood theron his cloude.
10 Terminum circumdedit aquis, usque dum finiantur lux et tenebræ.
He hath cumpassid a terme to watris, til that liyt and derknessis be endid.
11 Columnæ cæli contremiscunt, et pavent ad nutum ejus.
The pilers of heuene tremblen, and dreden at his wille.
12 In fortitudine illius repente maria congregata sunt, et prudentia ejus percussit superbum.
In the strengthe of hym the sees weren gaderid togidere sudeynly, and his prudence smoot the proude.
13 Spiritus ejus ornavit cælos, et obstetricante manu ejus, eductus est coluber tortuosus.
His spiryt ournede heuenes, and the crokid serpent was led out bi his hond, ledynge out as a mydwijf ledith out a child.
14 Ecce hæc ex parte dicta sunt viarum ejus: et cum vix parvam stillam sermonis ejus audierimus, quis poterit tonitruum magnitudinis illius intueri?
Lo! these thingis ben seid in partie of `hise weyes; and whanne we han herd vnnethis a litil drope of his word, who may se the thundur of his greetnesse?
