Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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CAP. XXVI.
1 Forsothe Joob answeride, and seide,
Whos helpere art thou?
2 whether `of the
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feble, and susteyneste the arm of hym,
which is not strong?
3 To whom hast thou
&yogh;oue counsel? In hap to hym that hath
not wisdom; and thou hast schewid ful
myche prudence.
4 Ether whom woldist
thou teche? whether not hym, that made
brething?
5 Lo! giauntis note weilen vnder
watris, and thei that dwellen with hem.
6 Helle is nakid bifor hym, and noon hilyng
is to perdicioun.
7 Which God stretchith
forth the north on voide thing, and hangith
the erthe on nou&yogh;t.
8 `Which God
byndith watris in her cloudis, that tho
breke not out togidere dounward.
9 `Whych
God holdith the cheer of his seete, and
spredith abrood theron his cloude.
10 He
hath cumpassid a terme to watris, til that
li&yogh;t and derknessis be endid.
11 The pilers note
of heuene tremblen, and dreden at his
wille.
12 In the strengthe of hym the sees
weren gaderid togidere sudeynly, and his
prudence smoot the proude.
13 His spiryt
ournede heuenes, and the crokid serpent
was led out bi his hond, ledynge out as
a mydwijf ledith out a child.
14 Lo! these
thingis ben seid in partie of `hise weyes;
and whanne we han herd vnnethis a litil
drope of his word, who may se the thundur
of his greetnesse?
Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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