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
Gyf feoh sy underfangen.
Gyf hit sy hors sing on his feteran oððe on his bridele. Gyf hit sy oðer feoh sing on þæt fotspor and ontend .iii. candela and dryp on þæt hofrec þæt wex þriwa. Ne mæg hit þe nan man forhelan.
Gif hit sy innorf.
Sing þonne 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 iudicii ligatum perducat.
Judeas Crist ahengan þæt heom com to wite swa strangan ge dydan heom dæda þa wyrrestan hy þæt drofe on guldon hælan hit heom to hearme micclum for þam hi hyt forhelan ne mihtan.
(Cambridge, MS Corpus Christi College 190, p. 130.)
