Job 26
1 respondens autem Iob dixit
Forsothe Joob answeride, and seide, Whos helpere art thou?
2 cuius adiutor es numquid inbecilli et sustentas brachium eius 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 spiramen tuum
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 adpendit terram super nihili
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 tenebrae
He hath cumpassid a terme to watris, til that liyt and derknessis be endid.
11 columnae caeli contremescunt et pavent ad nutum eius
The pilers of heuene tremblen, and dreden at his wille.
12 in fortitudine illius repente maria congregata sunt et prudentia eius percussit superbum
In the strengthe of hym the sees weren gaderid togidere sudeynly, and his prudence smoot the proude.
13 spiritus eius ornavit caelos et obsetricante manu eius 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 haec ex parte dicta sunt viarum eius et cum vix parvam stillam sermonis eius 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?
