JOB C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36 C37 C38 C39 C40 C41 C42

WYC JOB Chapter 4

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4 Forsothe Eliphat Themanytes answeride, and seide, 2 If we bigynnen to speke to thee, in hap thou schalt take it heuyli; but who may holde a word conseyued? 3 Lo! thou hast tauyt ful many men, and thou hast strengthid hondis maad feynt. 4 Thi wordis confermyden men doutynge, and thou coumfortidist knees tremblynge. 5 But now a wounde is comun on thee, and thou hast failid; it touchide thee, and thou art disturblid. 6 Where is thi drede, thi strengthe, and thi pacience, and the perfeccioun of thi weies? 7 Y biseche thee, haue thou mynde, what innocent man perischide euere, ethir whanne riytful men weren doon awei? 8 Certis rathir Y siy hem, that worchen wickidnesse, and sowen sorewis, 9 and repen tho, to haue perischid bi God blowynge, and to be wastid bi the spirit of his ire. 10 The roryng of a lioun, and the vois of a lionesse, and the teeth of `whelpis of liouns ben al to-brokun. 11 Tigris perischide, for sche hadde not prey; and the whelpis of a lioun ben distried. 12 Certis an hid word was seid to me, and myn eere took as theueli the veynes of priuy noise therof. 13 In the hidousnesse of `nyytis siyt, whanne heuy sleep is wont to occupie men, 14 drede and tremblyng helde me; and alle my boonys weren aferd. 15 And whanne the spirit `yede in my presence, the heiris of `my fleisch hadden hidousnesse. 16 Oon stood, whos chere Y knewe not, an ymage bifor myn iyen; and Y herde a vois as of softe wynd. 17 Whether a man schal be maad iust in comparisoun of God? ethir whethir a man schal be clennere than his Makere? 18 Lo! thei that seruen hym ben not stidefast; and he findith schrewidnesse in hise aungels. 19 Hou myche more thei that dwellen in housis of cley, that han an ertheli foundement, schulen be wastyd as of a mouyte. 20 Fro morewtid til to euentid thei schulen be kit doun; and for no man vndurstondith, thei schulen perische with outen ende. 21 Sotheli thei, that ben residue, schulen be takun awei; thei schulen die, and not in wisdom.

JOB C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21 C22 C23 C24 C25 C26 C27 C28 C29 C30 C31 C32 C33 C34 C35 C36 C37 C38 C39 C40 C41 C42