1 WYC Forsothe Joob answeride, and seide, Whos helpere art thou? BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 WYC whether `of the feble, and susteyneste the arm of hym, which is not strong? BSB BSB: “How you have helped the powerless and saved the arm that is feeble!
3 WYC To whom hast thou youe counsel? In hap to hym that hath not wisdom; and thou hast schewid ful myche prudence. BSB BSB: How you have counseled the unwise and provided fully sound insight!
4 WYC Ether whom woldist thou teche? whether not hym, that made brething? BSB BSB: To whom have you uttered these words? And whose spirit spoke through you?
5 WYC Lo! giauntis weilen vnder watris, and thei that dwellen with hem. BSB BSB: The dead tremble—those beneath the waters and those who dwell in them.
6 WYC Helle is nakid bifor hym, and noon hilyng is to perdicioun. BSB BSB: Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon has no covering.
7 WYC Which God stretchith forth the north on voide thing, and hangith the erthe on nouyt. BSB BSB: He stretches out the north over empty space; He hangs the earth upon nothing.
8 WYC `Which God byndith watris in her cloudis, that tho breke not out togidere dounward. BSB BSB: He wraps up the waters in His clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their own weight.
9 WYC `Whych God holdith the cheer of his seete, and spredith abrood theron his cloude. BSB BSB: He covers the face of the full moon, spreading over it His cloud.
10 WYC He hath cumpassid a terme to watris, til that liyt and derknessis be endid. BSB BSB: He has inscribed a horizon on the face of the waters at the boundary between light and darkness.
11 WYC The pilers of heuene tremblen, and dreden at his wille. BSB BSB: The foundations of heaven quake, astounded at His rebuke.
12 WYC In the strengthe of hym the sees weren gaderid togidere sudeynly, and his prudence smoot the proude. BSB BSB: By His power He stirred the sea; by His understanding He shattered Rahab.
13 WYC His spiryt ournede heuenes, and the crokid serpent was led out bi his hond, ledynge out as a mydwijf ledith out a child. BSB BSB: By His breath the skies were cleared; His hand pierced the fleeing serpent.
14 WYC 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? BSB BSB: Indeed, these are but the fringes of His ways; how faint is the whisper we hear of Him! Who then can understand the thunder of His power?”
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