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| [1]Tymes ben not hid fro Almyyti God; sotheli thei that knowen hym, knowen not hise daies. |
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| [2]Othere men turneden ouer the termes of neiyboris eritage, thei token awei flockis, and fedden tho. |
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| [3]Thei driueden awei the asse of fadirlesse children, and token awei the cow of a widewe for a wed. |
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| [4]Thei distrieden the weie of pore men, and thei oppressiden togidere the mylde men of erthe. |
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| [5]Othere men as wielde assis in deseert goon out to her werk; and thei waken to prey, and bifor maken redy breed to her children. |
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| [6]Thei kitten doun a feeld not hern, and thei gaderen grapis of his vyner, whom thei han oppressid bi violence. |
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| [7]Thei leeuen men nakid, and taken awei the clothis, to whiche men is noon hiling in coold; |
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| [8]whiche men the reynes of munteyns weeten, and thei han noon hilyng, and biclippen stoonys. |
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| [9]Thei diden violence, and robbiden fadirles and modirles children; and thei spuyliden, `ether robbiden, the comynte of pore men. |
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| [10]Thei token awey eeris of corn fro nakid men, and goynge with out cloth, and fro hungry men. |
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| [11]Thei weren hid in myddai among the heepis of tho men, that thirsten, whanne the presses ben trodun. |
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| [12]Thei maden men of citees to weile, and the soulis of woundid men schulen crye; and God suffrith it not to go awei vnpunyschid. |
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| [13]Thei weren rebel to liyt; thei knewen not the weyes therof, nether thei turneden ayen bi the pathis therof. |
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| [14]A mansleere risith ful eerli, and sleeth a nedi man, and a pore man; sotheli bi nyyt he schal be as a nyyt theef. |
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| [15]The iye of avouter kepith derknesse, and seith, An yye schal not se me; and he schal hile his face. |
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| [16]Thei mynen housis in derknessis, as thei seiden togidere to hem silf in the dai; and thei knewen not liyt. |
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| [17]If the morewtid apperith sudeynli, thei demen the schadewe of deth; and so thei goon in derknessis as in liyt. |
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| [18]He is vnstablere than the face of the water; his part in erthe be cursid, and go he not bi the weie of vyneris. |
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| [19]Passe he to ful greet heete fro the watris of snowis, and the synne of hym `til to hellis. |
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| [20]Merci foryete hym; his swetnesse be a worm; be he not in mynde, but be he al to-brokun as `a tre vnfruytful. |
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| [21]For he fedde the bareyn, and hir that childith not, and he dide not wel to the widewe. |
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| [22]He drow doun stronge men in his strengthe; and whanne he stondith in `greet state, he schal not bileue to his lijf. |
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| [23]God yaf to hym place of penaunce, and he mysusith that in to pride; for the iyen of God ben in the weies of that man. |
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| [24]Thei ben reisid at a litil, and thei schulen not stonde; and thei schulen be maad low as alle thingis, and thei schulen be takun awei; and as the hyynessis of eeris of corn thei schulen be al to-brokun. |
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| [25]That if it is not so, who may repreue me, that Y liede, and putte my wordis bifor God? |
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