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. XXXIX.
1 Whether thou hast knowen the time
of the berthe of wilde capretis in stonys,
or thou hast waitid hindis berende calf?
2 Thou hast noumbrid the monethis of conceyuyng
-- --
of hem, and thou hast knowe
the time of the birthe of hem?
3 Thei ben
bowid to the frut of kinde, and beren;
and `roringus thei senden out.
4 The sones
of hem ben seuered, and go to the feding;
thei gon out, and ben not turned a&yogh;een
to them.
5 Who lafte the asse fre, and
his bondis who looside?
6 To whom I &yogh;af
in wildernesse an hous, and his tabernaclis
in the lond of bareynte.
7 He despiseth
the multitude of the cite; the cry
of the pletere he hereth not.
8 He beholdeth
aboute the hillis of hys leswe,
and alle grene growende thingis he
secheth.
9 Whether the vnycorn shal wiln
serue to thee, or shal dwelle at thi
cracche?
10 Whether shalt thou tie to eren
the vnycorn with thi bridil, or he shal
breke clottis of valeis after thee?
11 Whether
trost thou shalt han in the grete
strengthe of hym, and leuen to hym thi
trauailis?
12 Whether takist thou to hym,
that seed he &yogh;eelde to thee, and thi corn
flor he gedere?
13 The fether of a strucioun
is lic to the fetheris of a ierfakoun,
and of a goshauk;
14 that leueth hir eiren
in the erthe, thou perauenture in pouder
shalt make them hot.
15 She for&yogh;et, that
the foot to-trede them, or beste of the
feeld to-brose.
16 She is maad hard to hir
sones, as tho&yogh; thei be not hiris; in veyn
she trauailide, no drede constreynende.
17 God forsothe priuede hir wisdam, and
&yogh;af not to hir vnderstonding.
18 Whan time
were, in hei&yogh;te she rerede out hir weengis;
scorneth the hors, and the ste&yogh;ere vp of
it.
19 Whether shalt thou &yogh;iue to the hors
strengthe, or don aboute his necke neyenge?
20 Whether shalt thou reren hym as
locustis?
20 The glorie of his nese therlis
ferd.
21 The erthe the houe delueth, hardili
he gladeth out; in to the a&yogh;encomyng
-- --
he goth to the armed.
22 He dispisith
dreede, and he &yogh;iueth not stede to the
swerd.
23 Vp on hym the arewe girdil shal
sounen; the spere and the sheeld shal
braundishen.
24 Feruent and gnastende he
soupeth the erthe; and rewarde he not
to the trumpe sounende trumping.
25 Where
he shal here the trumpe, he shal seyn,
Fy! aferr he smellith bataile; the cleping
to of dukis, and &yogh;elling of the ost.
26 Whether
bi thi wisdam waxeth fetherid the
goshauk, strecchende out his weengus to
the south?
27 Whether at thi comaundement
shal be rerid the egle, and in he&yogh;e
thingus shal putten his nest?
28 In stones
he dwellith, and in he&yogh;e sett scarri flintis
he bideth, and in rochis hard to come to.
29 Thennes he behalt mete, and fro a ferr
his e&yogh;en beholden.
30 His briddes licken
blod, and wher euere shal be the careyn,
anoon he is nee&yogh;h.
31 And the Lord addede,
and spac to Job,
32 Whether he that striueth
with God, so li&yogh;tli shal reste? Forsothe
he, that vndernemeth God, owith to answere
to hym.
33 Answerende forsothe Job
to the Lord seide,
34 I that li&yogh;tli spac, what
may I answern? Myn hond I shal putte
vp on my mouth.
35 O thing I spac, that
wolde God I hadde not seid; and an
other, to the whiche thingus I shal
adden no more.
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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