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¹ Iob answered, and sayd:² My sayenge is yet this daye in bytternes, and my hande heuy amonge my groninges.³ O that I might se him & fynde him: O that I might come before his seate,⁴ to pleate my cause before him, and to fyll my mouth with argumentes:⁵ That I might knowe, what answere he wolde geue me: & that I might vnderstonde, what he wolde saye vnto me.⁶ Wil he pleate agaynst me with his greate power & strength, or wyll he leane him self vtterly vpon me?⁷ Oh no, let him not do so with me. But let hym geue me like power to go to lawe, then am I sure to wynne my matter.

⁸ For though I go before, I fynde him not: yf I come behynde, I ca get no knowlege of him:⁹ Yf I go on the left syde to pondre his workes, I can not atteyne vnto them: Agayne, yf I go on the right syde, he hydeth himself, yt I can not se him.¹⁰ But as for my waye, he knoweth it: & trieth me as ye golde in ye fyre.¹¹ Neuertheles my fete kepe his path, his hye strete haue I holden, and not gone out of it.¹² I haue not forsaken the comaundemet of his lippes, but loke what he charged me with his mouth, that haue I shutt vp in my herte.

¹³ It is he himself alone, who will turne him back? He doth as him listeth, and bryngeth to passe what he wil.¹⁴ He rewardeth me into my bosome, & many other thinges mo doth he, as he maye by his power.¹⁵ This is ye cause, that I shrenke at his presence, so that when I considre him, I am afrayed of him.¹⁶ For in so moch as he is God, he maketh my herte soft: and seynge that he is Allmightie, he putteth me in feare.¹⁷ Thus can not I get out of darcknesse, the cloude hath so couered my face.