Consequences of Job in Anglo-Saxon England
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- The Red Book of Darley (page 471)
Hymns of the Anglo-Saxon Church: Durham Hymnal
Cambridge, MS Corpus Christi College 190, p. 130.
Gyf feoh sy underfangen.
Gyf hit sy hors sing on his feteran oe on his bridele.
Gyf hit sy oer feoh sing on æt fotspor
and ontend .iii. candela and dryp on æt hofrec æt wex riwa.
Ne mæg hit e nan man forhelan.
Gif hit sy innorf
Sing onne on feower healfe pæs huses and æne on middan:
Crux christi reducat
Crux christi per furtum periit inuenta est
abraham tibi semitas uias montes concludat
iob et flumina ad iudici[um] ligatum perducat.
Judeas Crist ahengan æt heom com to wite swa strangan
gedydan heom dæda a wyrrestan hy æt drofe on guldon
hælan hit heom to hearme micclum
for am hi hyt forhelan ne mihtan.26