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. XXIX.
1 Also Job addede, takende to his parable,
and seide,
2 Who &yogh;eue to me, that I
be after the rathere monethis, after the
da&yogh;es in the whiche God kepte me?
3 Whanne shynede his lanterne vp on myn
hed, and at his li&yogh;t I wente in dercnessis.
4 As I was in the da&yogh;es of my
waxende &yogh;outhe, whan priueli God was
in my tabernacle.
5 Whan the Almy&yogh;ti
was with me, and in myn enuyroun my
childer;
6 whan I wesh my feet with buttere,
and the ston helde to me ryueres
of oile;
7 whan I wente forth to the &yogh;ate of
the cite, and in the strete thei maden
redy a cha&yogh;er to me.
8 &YOGH;unge men se&yogh;en
me, and weren hid, and olde men risende
stoden;
9 princis ceseden to speken, and
finger putten vpon to ther mouth;
10 dukis
withdrowen ther vois, and the tunge of
-- --
hem to ther throte cleuede.
11 The herende
ere `blisful maade me, and the seande
e&yogh;e witnesse &yogh;eld to me;
12 forthi that I
hadde delyuered the pore man criende
out, and the moderles child, to the whiche
was noon helpere.
13 The blessing of hym,
that was to pershen, vp on me cam, and
the herte of the widewe I coumfortide.
14 Ri&yogh;twisnesse I am clad; and I clothide
me as a vestyment, and with a diademe
with my dom.
15 An e&yogh;e I was to blinde,
and a foot to the halte.
16 Fader I was of
pore men; and the cause that I knew
not, most diligentli I enserchide.
17 I tobroside
the chaulis of the wicke man,
and fro his teth I toc awei the prey.
18 And I seide, Die I in my litle nest; and
as a palme I shal multiplie da&yogh;is.
19 My
roote is opened beside watris, and deu
shal abide in my reping.
20 My glorie euermore
shal be newid, and my bowe in
myn hond shal be reparailid.
21 That herden
me, abiden my sentence; and takende heede
thei heelde stille at my counseil.
22 To my
woordis no thing to adden thei weren
hardi; and vpon hem droppide my speche.
23 Thei biden as reyn my speche; and
mouth thei openeden as to the late comende
weder.
24 If any time I loow&yogh; to
them, thei leeueden not; and the li&yogh;t of my
chere fel not in to the erthe.
25 If I wolde
go to them, I sat first; and whan I sat as
a king, the ost aboute stondende, I was
neuerthelatere of dreri men the coumfortere.
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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