Job · Chapter 42

[ edit] Anſwerende forſoþe Job to þe Lord, ſeide, I wot, for alle þingus þou maiſt, and no þoȝt is vnknowe to þee. Who is þis, þat hiliþ counſeil wiþoute kunnyng? Þerfore vnwiſly I ſpak, and þo þingus þat ouer maner ſhulden paſſe my kunnyng. Heere þou, and I ſhal ſpeke; I ſhal aſke þee, and anſwere þou to me. Bi hering of ere I herde þee, now forſoþe myn eȝe ſeeþ þee. Þerfore I myſelf repreue me, and do penaunce in dead cole and aſkis. Aftir forſoþe þat þe Lord ſpac þeſe woordis to Job, he ſeide to Elifaþ Themanyþen, My wodneſſe is wroþ in to þee, and in to þi two frendis; for ȝee han not ſpoke befor me riȝt, as my ſeruaunt Job.

Takeþ þerfore to ȝou ſeuen bolis, and ſeuen weþeris; and goþ to my ſeruaunt Job, and offreþ for ȝou brent ſacrifiſe. Job forſoþe, my ſeruaunt, ſhal preȝen for ȝou; his face I ſhal take, þat folie be nott witid to ȝou; ne forſoþe ȝee han ſpoken befor me riȝt, as my ſeruaunt Job. Þanne Elyfaþ Themanyþes, and Baldach Suyþes, and Sofar Naamatites, wenten, and diden, as þe Lord hadde ſpoke to þem; and þe Lord toc þe face of Job. Þe Lord alſo is turned to þe penaunce of Job, whan he ſhulde preȝe for his frendis. And þe Lord ȝaf to alle þingus, þat euere weren of Job, double.

And þer camen to hym alle his breþern, and alle his ſiſtris, and alle þat hadden knowen hym beforn; and þei eete wiþ hym bred in his hous, and moueden vpon hym þe hed; and coumforteden hym vp on al þe euel, þat þe Lord hadde broȝt in vp on hym; and þei ȝeue to hym eche a ſhep, and a golden ere ring. Þe Lord forſoþe bliſſide to þe laſte þingus of Job, more þan to his begynnyng; and þer ben maad to hym fourtene þouſend of ſhep, and ſixe þouſend of camailis, and a þouſend ȝokis of oxen, and a þouſend ſhe aſſis. And þer weren to hym ſeue ſones, and þre doȝtris; and he clepide þe name of þe ton Diem, and þe name of þe ſeconde Caſſiam, and þe name of þe þridde Cornu tibij.

Þer ben not forſoþe founde ſo faire wymmen, as þe doȝtris of Job, in al þe lond; and þer fader ȝaf to hem eritage among þer breþern. Forſoþe Job lyuede aftir þeſe ſcourgis an hundrid and fourti ȝeer, and ſaȝ his ſones, and þe ſones of his ſones, in to þe ferþe ieneracioun; and he diede old, and ful of daȝis. Here endiþ þe book of Job, and here begynneþ þe prolog of þe Sawter.