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. XXXIII.
1 Here thanne, Job, my spechis, and alle
my woordis hercne.
2 Lo! I haue opened
my mouth; my tunge in my chekis shal
speke.
3 With symple herte my woordis,
-- --
and pure sentence my lippis shul speke.
4 The spirit of God made me, and the
brething space of the Almy&yogh;ti quykenede
me.
5 If thou maist, answere to me, and
stond stille a&yogh;en my face.
6 Lo! me as and
thee made God; and of the same cley
I also am formed.
7 Nerthelatere my miracle
fere thee not, and my faire speche
be not to thee heuy.
8 Thou seidest thanne
in myn eris, and the vois of thi woordis
I herde;
9 Clene I am, and withoute gilte,
vnwemmed, and ther is not wickidnesse
in me.
10 For pleintis in me he fond, therfore
he demede me enemy to hym.
11 He
putte in the stockis my feet, and kepte
alle my sties.
12 This is thanne, in the
whiche thou art not iustified; I shal answer
to thee, for God is more than man.
13 A&yogh;en God thou striuest, that to alle
woordis he shal not answer to thee.
14 Ones God shal speke, and the secounde
that same he shal not eft seyn.
15 Bi
sweuene in ny&yogh;t si&yogh;te, whan falle slep vp
on men, and thei slepen in the litle bed.
16 Thanne he openeth the eris of men, and
enformende them techith discipline;
17 that he turne awei a man fro tho thingus
that he dide, and deliuere hym fro pride;
and takende awei his soule fro corupcioun,
18
and his lif, that he go not in to
swerd.
19 He blameth also bi sorewe in the
litle bed, and alle his bones maketh to
become drie.
20 Abhomynable to hym bred
is maad in his lif, and to the soule of
hym mete beforn desirable.
21 His flesh
shal become roten, and the bones, that
weren couered, shul be maad nakid.
22 The
soule of hym shal ne&yogh;he to corupcioun,
and his lif to thingus berende deth.
23 If
ther were for hym an aungil spekende
oon of the lic thingis, that he telle the
equite of man,
24 he shal han reuthe, and
sein, Delyuere hym, that he go not doun
-- --
in to corupcioun; I haue founde in what
I be plesid to hym.
25 His flesh is wastid
of tormentis; be he turned a&yogh;een to the
da&yogh;es of his waxende &yogh;outhe.
26 He shal
pre&yogh;e God, and be plesable to hym; and
seen his face in io&yogh;e, and &yogh;elde to man
his ri&yogh;twisnesse.
27 He shal beholde men,
and sein, I haue synned, and vereli I
haue trespasid; and as I was worthi, I
haue not resceyued.
28 Forsothe he hath
deliuered his soule, that he go not in to
deth, but lyuende li&yogh;t he shal seen.
29 Lo!
alle these thingus wercheth God thre
sithes bi alle men;
30 that he a&yogh;een clepe
the soulis of hem fro corupcioun, and
li&yogh;tne in the li&yogh;t of liuende men.
31 Tac
heede, Job, and here me, and be stille,
whil I speke.
32 If forsothe thou hast what
thou speke, answere to me, spec; I wile
forsothe thee to apere ri&yogh;twis.
33 That if
thou haue not, here me; be still, and I
shal teche thee wisdam.
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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