1 WYC Also Joob addide, takynge his parable, and seide, BSB BSB: Job continued his discourse:
2 WYC God lyueth, that hath take awey my doom, and Almyyti God, that hath brouyt my soule to bitternesse. BSB BSB: “As surely as God lives, who has deprived me of justice—the Almighty, who has embittered my soul—
3 WYC For as long as breeth is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nose thirlis, BSB BSB: as long as my breath is still within me and the breath of God remains in my nostrils,
4 WYC my lippis schulen not speke wickidnesse, nether my tunge schal thenke a leesyng. BSB BSB: my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
5 WYC Fer be it fro me, that Y deme you iust; til Y faile, Y schal not go awei fro myn innocence. BSB BSB: I will never say that you are right; I will maintain my integrity until I die.
6 WYC Y schal not forsake my iustifiyng, which Y bigan to holde; for myn herte repreueth me not in al my lijf. BSB BSB: I will cling to my righteousness and never let go. As long as I live, my conscience will not accuse me.
7 WYC As my wickid enemy doth; myn aduersarie is as wickid. BSB BSB: May my enemy be like the wicked and my opponent like the unjust.
8 WYC For what is the hope of an ypocrite, if he rauyschith gredili, and God delyuerith not his soule? BSB BSB: For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
9 WYC Whether God schal here the cry of hym, whanne angwisch schal come on hym? BSB BSB: Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him?
10 WYC ether whether he may delite in Almyyti God, and inwardli clepe God in al tyme? BSB BSB: Will he delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?
11 WYC Y schal teche you bi the hond of God, what thingis Almyyti God hath; and Y schal not hide. BSB BSB: I will instruct you in the power of God. I will not conceal the ways of the Almighty.
12 WYC Lo! alle ye knowen, and what speken ye veyn thingis with out cause? BSB BSB: Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?
13 WYC This is the part of a wickid man anentis God, and the eritage of violent men, ether rauenours, whiche thei schulen take of Almyyti God. BSB BSB: This is the wicked man’s portion from God—the heritage the ruthless receive from the Almighty.
14 WYC If hise children ben multiplied, thei schulen be slayn in swerd; and hise sones sones schulen not be fillid with breed. BSB BSB: Though his sons are many, they are destined for the sword; and his offspring will never have enough food.
15 WYC Thei, that ben residue of hym, schulen be biried in perischyng; and the widewis of hym schulen not wepe. BSB BSB: His survivors will be buried by the plague, and their widows will not weep for them.
16 WYC If he gaderith togidere siluer as erthe, and makith redi clothis as cley; BSB BSB: Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
17 WYC sotheli he made redi, but a iust man schal be clothid in tho, and an innocent man schal departe the siluer. BSB BSB: what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.
18 WYC As a mouyte he hath bildid his hous, and as a kepere he made a schadewyng place. BSB BSB: The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.
19 WYC A riche man, whanne he schal die, schal bere no thing with hym; he schal opene hise iyen, and he schal fynde no thing. BSB BSB: He lies down wealthy, but will do so no more; when he opens his eyes, all is gone.
20 WYC Pouert as water schal take hym; and tempeste schal oppresse hym in the nyyt. BSB BSB: Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
21 WYC Brennynge wynd schal take hym, and schal do awei; and as a whirlewynd it schal rauysche hym fro his place. BSB BSB: The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
22 WYC He schal sende out turmentis on hym, and schal not spare; he fleynge schal `fle fro his hond. BSB BSB: It hurls itself against him without mercy as he flees headlong from its power.
23 WYC He schal streyne hise hondis on him, and he schal hisse on hym, and schal biholde his place. BSB BSB: It claps its hands at him and hisses him out of his place.
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