Study Desk

What sotheli schal Y do, whanne God schal rise to deme? and whanne he schal axe, what schal Y answere to hym?

Whether he, that wrouyte also hym, made not me in the wombe, and o God formede me in the wombe?

For euere Y dredde God, as wawis wexynge gret on me; and `Y myyte not bere his birthun.

which is the moost wickidnesse, and deniyng ayens hiyeste God;

who yyueth an helpere to me, that Almyyti God here my desire? that he that demeth,

And Helyu, the sone of Barachel Buzites, of the kynrede of Ram, was wrooth, and hadde indignacioun; forsothe he was wrooth ayens Joob, for he seide hym silf to be iust bifor God.

But as Y se, spirit is in men, and the enspiryng `ether reuelacioun, of Almyyti God yyueth vndurstondyng.

lest perauenture ye seien, We han founde wisdom; God, and not man, hath cast hym awei.

Y schal not take the persoone of man, and Y schal not make God euene to man.

The spirit of God made me, and the brething of Almyyti God quykenyde me.

Lo! God made me as and thee; and also Y am formyd of the same cley.

`For God foond querels in me, therfor he demyde me enemy to hym silf.

Therfor this thing it is, in which thou art not maad iust; Y schal answere to thee, that God is more than man.

Thou stryuest ayenus God, that not at alle wordis he answeride to thee.

God spekith onys, and the secounde tyme he rehersith not the same thing.

God spekith bi a dreem in the visioun of nyyt, whanne sleep fallith on men, and thei slepen in the bed.

Also God blameth a synnere bi sorewe in the bed, and makith alle the boonys of hym `to fade.

If an aungel, oon of a thousynde, is spekynge for hym, that he telle the equyte of man, God schal haue mercy on hym,

He schal biseche God, and he schal be quemeful to hym; and he schal se his face in hertly ioye, and he schal yelde to man his riytfulnesse.

Lo! God worchith alle these thingis in thre tymes bi alle men;