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For Job seide, Y am iust, and God hath distried my doom.

For he seide, A man schal not plese God, yhe, thouy he renneth with God.

Therfor ye men hertid, `that is, vndurstonde, here ye me; vnpite, `ethir cruelte, be fer fro God, and wickidnesse fro Almyyti God.

For verili God schal not condempne with out cause; nether Almyyti God schal distrie doom.

If God dressith his herte to hym, he schal drawe to hym silf his spirit and blast.

For the iyen of God ben on the weies of men, and biholdith alle goyngis of hem.

for it is `no more in the power of man, that he come to God in to doom.

God schal al to-breke many men and vnnoumbrable; and schal make othere men to stonde for hem.

Therfor for Y haue spoke to God, also Y schal not forbede thee.

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.

`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.

`ether riytful, to thee, that thou schuldist seie, Y am riytfulere than God?

Se thou, and biholde heuene, and biholde thou the eir, that God is hiyere than thou.

And Joob seide not, Where is God, that made me, and that yaf songis in the nyyt?

Which God techith vs aboue the beestis of erthe, and he schal teche vs aboue the briddis of heuene.

There thei schulen crye, and God schal not here, for the pride of yuele men.

For God schal not here with out cause, and Almyyti God schal biholde the causis of ech man.

Suffre thou me a litil, and Y schal schewe to thee; for yit Y haue that, that Y schal speke for God.

God castith not awei myyti men, sithen he is myyti;

Feyneris and false men stiren the ire of God; and thei schulen not crye, whanne thei ben boundun.