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[1] And Helyu pronounside, and spak also these thingis,
[2] Wise men, here ye my wordis, and lerned men, herkne ye me; for the eere preueth wordis,
[3] and the throte demeth metis bi taast.
[4] Chese we doom to vs; and se we among vs, what is the betere.
[5] For Job seide, Y am iust, and God hath distried my doom.
[6] For whi lesynge is in demynge me, and myn arowe is violent with out ony synne.
[7] Who is a man, as Joob is, that drynkith scornyng as watir?
[8] that goith with men worchynge wickidnesse, and goith with vnfeithful men?
[9] For he seide, A man schal not plese God, yhe, thouy he renneth with God.
[10] Therfor ye men hertid, `that is, vndurstonde, here ye me; vnpite, `ethir cruelte, be fer fro God, and wickidnesse fro Almyyti God.
[11] For he schal yelde the werk of man to hym; and bi the weies of ech man he schal restore to hym.
[12] For verili God schal not condempne with out cause; nether Almyyti God schal distrie doom.
[13] What othere man hath he ordeyned on the lond? ether whom hath he set on the world, which he made?
[14] If God dressith his herte to hym, he schal drawe to hym silf his spirit and blast.
[15] Ech fleisch schal faile togidere; `and a man schal turne ayen in to aisch.
[16] Therfor if thou hast vndurstondyng, here thou that that is seid, and herkne the vois of my speche.
[17] Whether he that loueth not doom may be maad hool? and hou condempnest thou so myche him, that is iust?
[18] Which seith to the kyng, Thou art apostata; which clepith the duykis vnpitouse, `ethir vnfeithful.
[19] `Which takith not the persoones of princes, nether knew a tyraunt, whanne he stryuede ayens a pore man; for alle men ben the werk of hise hondis.
[20] Thei schulen die sudeynli, and at mydnyyt puplis schulen be troblid, `ethir schulen be bowid, as othere bookis han; and schulen passe, and schulen take `awei `a violent man with out hond.
[21] For the iyen of God ben on the weies of men, and biholdith alle goyngis of hem.
[22] No derknessis ben, and no schadewe of deeth is, that thei, that worchen wickidnesse, be hid there;
[23] for it is `no more in the power of man, that he come to God in to doom.
[24] God schal al to-breke many men and vnnoumbrable; and schal make othere men to stonde for hem.
[25] For he knowith the werkis of hem; therfor he schal brynge yn niyt, and thei schulen be al to-brokun.
[26] He smoot hem, as vnpitouse men, in the place of seinge men.
[27] Whiche yeden awei fro hym bi `castyng afore, and nolden vndurstonde alle hise weies.
[28] That thei schulden make the cry of a nedi man to come to hym, and that he schulde here the vois of pore men.
[29] For whanne he grauntith pees, who is that condempneth? Sithen he hidith his cheer, who is that seeth hym? And on folkis and on alle men `he hath power `to do siche thingis.
[30] Which makith `a man ypocrite to regne, for the synnes of the puple.
[31] Therfor for Y haue spoke to God, also Y schal not forbede thee.
[32] If Y erride, teche thou me; if Y spak wickidnesse, Y schal no more adde.
[33] Whether God axith that wickidnesse of thee, for it displeside thee? For thou hast bigunne to speke, and not Y; that if thou knowist ony thing betere, speke thou.
[34] Men vndurstondynge, speke to me; and a wise man, here me.
[35] Forsothe Joob spak folili, and hise wordis sownen not techyng.
[36] My fadir, be Joob preuede `til to the ende; ceesse thou not fro the man of wickidnesse,
[37] `that addith blasfemye ouer hise synnes. Be he constreyned among vs in the meene tyme; and thanne bi hise wordis stire he God to the doom.
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