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. XXVI.
1
2 Answerende forsothe Job seide, Whos
helpere art thou? whether feble, and
-- --
sustenest the arm of hym, that is not
strong?
3 To whom hast thou &yogh;iue counseil?
Perauenture to hym that hath no
wisdam; and myche prudence thou hast
shewid.
4 Or whom woldest thou techen?
whether not hym, that made space of
brething?
5 Lo! ieauntis weilen vnder watris,
and that duellen with hem.
6 Nakid
is helle beforn hym, and no coueryng is
to perdicioun.
7 He that streccheth out the
north vp on vein, and hangeth vp the
erthe vp on no&yogh;t.
8 That bindeth watris
in his cloudis, that thei breke not out
togidere dounward.
9 That holdeth the
chere of his sete, and streccheth out vp
on it his cloude.
10 The terme he enuyrounde
with watris, vn to the time that
ben fynysht li&yogh;t and dercnessis.
11 The
pileris of heuene togidere quaken, and
dreden at his bek.
12 In the strengthe of
hym feerli ses ben gedered, and the prudence
of hym smot the proude man.
13 His
spirit ournede heuenes, and his hond li&yogh;tli
ledende out, the eche side krokende eddere
is led out.
14 Lo! a part ben seid of
his weies; and whan vnnethe a litil drope
of his woord wee han herd, who shal
moun the thunder of his gretnesse beholde?
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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