Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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CAP. X.
1 It no&yogh;eth me of my lif; I shal leten
a&yogh;en me my speche, I shal speke in bitternesse
to my soule.
2 I shal sei to God,
Wile thou not me condempne; shew to
me, whi me so thou demest.
3 Whether
good to thee it semeth, if thou chalenge
and opresse me, the werk of thin hondis;
and the counseil of vnpitous men thou
-- --
helpe?
4 Whether fleshly e&yogh;en ben to thee,
or as seeth a man, and thou shalt seen?
5 Whether as the da&yogh;is of man, thi da&yogh;es,
and thi &yogh;eris ben as mannys tymes;
that thou seche my wickidnesse,
6 and my
synne thou serche?
7 And wite thou, for
no thing vnpitous I dide; sithen ther is
no man, that of thin hond mai deliuere?
8 Thin hondis maden me, and formeden
me al in enuyroun; and so feerli thou
puttist me doun.
9 Haue mynde, I beseche,
that as clei thou madist me, and
in to pouder thou shalt a&yogh;een bringe me.
10 Whether not as mylc thou hast mylkid
me, and as chese thou hast crudded me?
11 With fel and flesh thou hast clad me;
with bones and senewis thou hast togidere
ioyned me.
12 Lif and mercy thou hast
&yogh;iue to me, and thi visiting kepte my
spirit.
13 Al be it that these thingus thou
hidist in thin herte, nerthelatere I wot, for
of alle thingus thou hast mynde.
14 If I
synnede, and at an houre thou sparedest
to me; whi fro my wickidnesse thou suffrist
not me to be clene?
15 And if a wicke
man I shal be, wo is to me; and if ri&yogh;twis,
I shal not reren vp the hed, fulfild
with affliccioun and wrecchidnesse.
16 And
for pride as a leounesse thou shalt take
me; and turned a&yogh;een, merueilously thou
tormentist me.
17 Thou restorist thi witnessis
a&yogh;en me, and thou multipliest thi
wrathe a&yogh;en me; and peynes fi&yogh;ten in me.
18 Whi of the wombe thou bro&yogh;tist me out?
That wolde God I hadde be wastid, that
e&yogh;e shulde not seen me.
19 I hadde ben as
I were not, fro the wombe translatid to
the toumbe.
20 Whether not the fewenesse
of my da&yogh;is shal ben endid in short? Let
me thanne, that I weile a litil while my
sorewe,
21 er I go, and turne not a&yogh;een, to
-- --
the derke erthe, and couered with the
dercnesse of deth the erthe of wrecchidnesse
and of dercnessis;
22 wher shadewe
of deth, and noon order, but fulli indwellith
euere durende orrour.
Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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