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].
To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
CAP. XI.
1 Answerende forsothe Sofar Naamatithes
seide,
2 Whether he, that manye
thingus spekith, whether and he shal
heren? or a man ful of woordis shal be
iustefied?
3 To thee alone men shul holde
ther pes? and whan other men thou
scornest, of no man thou shalt be confoundid?
4 Thou forsothe seidist, Pure is
my woord, and clene I am in thi si&yogh;te.
5 And wolde God, God shulde speke with
thee, and openen his lippis to thee;
6 that
he shulde shewe to thee the priuytes of
wisdam, and that manyfold is his lawe,
and thou shuldest vnderstonde, that manye
lasse thingus thou art askid of hym, than
deserueth thi wickidnesse.
7 Perauenture
the steppis of God thou shalt holde, and
vnto perfit the Almy&yogh;ti thou shalt finde.
8 Hei&yogh;ere than heuene he is, and what
shalt thou do? deppere than helle, and
whennys shalt thou knowen?
9 Lengere
than the erthe the mesure of hym, and
braddere than the se.
10 If he turne vpso
doun alle thingus, or in to oon drawe
togidere, who shal a&yogh;ensein to hym? Or
who shal moun sey to hym, Whi dost
thou so?
11 He forsothe knew&yogh; the vanyte
of men; and seande wickidnesse whether
he beholde not?
12 A veyn man in to pride
is rerid; and as a colt of an asse, he
weeneth hymself born free.
13 Thou forsothe
hast fastned thin herte, and hast
sprad out to hym thin hondis.
14 If the
-- --
wickidnesse, that is in thin hond, thou
takest awei fro thee, and vnri&yogh;twisnesse
abideth not stille in thi tabernacle,
15 thanne
thou shalt moun rere thi face with oute
wem, and thou shalt be stable, and not
dreden.
16 Of wrecchenesse also thou shalt
for&yogh;ete, and, as of watris that passeden,
thou shalt not recorde.
17 And as myddai
li&yogh;ting it shal rise to thee at euen; and
whan thee wastid thou wenest, thou shalt
springe as the dai sterre.
18 And thou shalt
han trost, purposid to thee hope; and
doun dolue, siker thou shalt slepe.
19 Thou
shalt reste, and ther shal not be that
fere thee; and manye shul pre&yogh;e thi
face.
20 The e&yogh;en forsothe of vnpitous men
shul faile; and out fli&yogh;t shal pershe fro
hem, and the hope of hem abhomynacioun
of soule.
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].
|
