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¹ Also Joob addide, takynge his parable, and seide,² God lyueth, that hath take awey my doom, and Almyyti God, that hath brouyt my soule to bitternesse.³ For as long as breeth is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nose thirlis,⁴ my lippis schulen not speke wickidnesse, nether my tunge schal thenke a leesyng.⁵ Fer be it fro me, that Y deme you iust; til Y faile, Y schal not go awei fro myn innocence.⁶ Y schal not forsake my iustifiyng, which Y bigan to holde; for myn herte repreueth me not in al my lijf.

⁷ As my wickid enemy doth; myn aduersarie is as wickid.⁸ For what is the hope of an ypocrite, if he rauyschith gredili, and God delyuerith not his soule?⁹ Whether God schal here the cry of hym, whanne angwisch schal come on hym?¹⁰ ether whether he may delite in Almyyti God, and inwardli clepe God in al tyme?

¹¹ Y schal teche you bi the hond of God, what thingis Almyyti God hath; and Y schal not hide.¹² Lo! alle ye knowen, and what speken ye veyn thingis with out cause?¹³ This is the part of a wickid man anentis God, and the eritage of violent men, ether rauenours, whiche thei schulen take of Almyyti God.¹⁴ If hise children ben multiplied, thei schulen be slayn in swerd; and hise sones sones schulen not be fillid with breed.¹⁵ Thei, that ben residue of hym, schulen be biried in perischyng; and the widewis of hym schulen not wepe.¹⁶ If he gaderith togidere siluer as erthe, and makith redi clothis as cley;¹⁷ sotheli he made redi, but a iust man schal be clothid in tho, and an innocent man schal departe the siluer.¹⁸ As a mouyte he hath bildid his hous, and as a kepere he made a schadewyng place.¹⁹ A riche man, whanne he schal die, schal bere no thing with hym; he schal opene hise iyen, and he schal fynde no thing.²⁰ Pouert as water schal take hym; and tempeste schal oppresse hym in the nyyt.²¹ Brennynge wynd schal take hym, and schal do awei; and as a whirlewynd it schal rauysche hym fro his place.²² He schal sende out turmentis on hym, and schal not spare; he fleynge schal `fle fro his hond.²³ He schal streyne hise hondis on him, and he schal hisse on hym, and schal biholde his place.