9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
1Forsothe Sophar Naamathites answeride, and seide,
2Whether he, that spekith many thingis, schal not also here? ether whethir a man ful of wordis schal be maad iust?
3Schulen men be stille to thee aloone? whanne thou hast scorned othere men, schalt thou not be ouercomun of ony man?
4For thou seidist, My word is cleene, and Y am cleene in thi siyt.
5And `Y wolde, that God spak with thee, and openyde hise lippis to thee;
6to schewe to thee the priuetees of wisdom, and that his lawe is manyfold, and thou schuldist vndurstonde, that thou art requirid of hym to paie myche lesse thingis, than thi wickidnesse disserueth.
7In hap thou schalt comprehende the steppis of God, and thou schalt fynde Almyyti God `til to perfeccioun.
8He is hiyere than heuene, and what schalt thou do? he is deppere than helle, and wherof schalt thou knowe?
9His mesure is lengere than erthe, and brodere than the see.
10If he distrieth alle thingis, ethir dryueth streitli `in to oon, who schal ayenseie hym? Ethir who may seie to hym, Whi doest thou so?
11For he knowith the vanyte of men; and whether he seynge byholdith not wickidnesse?
12A veyn man is reisid in to pride; and gessith hym silf borun fre, as the colt of a wilde asse.
13But thou hast maad stidefast thin herte, and hast spred abrood thin hondis to hym.
14If thou doest awei `fro thee the wickidnesse, which is in thin hond, and vnriytfulnesse dwellith not in thi tabernacle,
15thanne thou schalt mowe reise thi face with out wem, and thou schalt be stidefast, and thou schalt not drede.
16And thou schalt foryete wretchidnesse, and thou schalt not thenke of it, as of watris that han passid.
17And as myddai schynynge it schal reise to thee at euentid; and whanne thou gessist thee wastid, thou schalt rise vp as the dai sterre.
18And thou schalt haue trist, while hope schal be set forth to thee; and thou biried schalt slepe sikurli.
19Thou schalt reste, and `noon schal be that schal make thee aferd; and ful many men schulen biseche thi face.
20But the iyen of wickid men schulen faile; and socour schal perische fro hem, and the hope of hem schal be abhominacyioun of soule.