Job 42
1 Then Job answered and said to the Lord,
Job répondit à Yahweh et dit:
2 I know that you can do all things, and nothing is impossible with you.
Je sais que tu peux tout, et que pour toi aucun dessein n’est trop difficile.
3 For who is he that hides counsel from you? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from you? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?
« Quel est celui qui obscurcit le plan divin, sans savoir? » Oui, j’ai parlé sans intelligence de merveilles qui me dépassent et que j’ignore.
4 But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask you, and do you teach me.
« Ecoute-moi, je vais parler; je t’interrogerai, réponds-moi. »
5 I have heard the report of you by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen you.
Mon oreille avait entendu parler de toi; mais maintenant mon œil t’a vu.
6 Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.
C’est pourquoi je me condamne et me repens, sur la poussière et sur la cendre.
7 And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, [that] the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thaemanite, You have sinned, and your two friends: for you have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job [has].
Après que Yahweh eut adressé ces paroles à Job, il dit à Eliphaz de Théman: « Ma colère est allumée contre toi et contre tes deux amis, parce que vous n’avez pas parlé de moi selon la vérité, comme l’a fait mon serviteur Job.
8 Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for you have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.
Maintenant, prenez sept jeunes taureaux et sept béliers; puis venez trouver mon serviteur Job, et offrez pour vous un holocauste. Job, mon serviteur, priera pour vous, et c’est par égard pour lui que je ne vous traiterai pas selon votre folie; car vous n’avez pas parlé de moi selon la vérité, comme l’a fait mon serviteur Job. »
9 So Eliphaz the Thaemanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.
Eliphaz de Théman, Baldad de Suhé et Sophar de Naaman allèrent donc et firent comme Yahweh leur avait dit; et Yahweh eut égard à la prière de Job.
10 And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them [their] sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before.
Yahweh rétablit Job dans son premier état, pendant que Job intercédait pour ses amis, et Yahweh rendit à Job le double de tous ses biens.
11 And all his brethren and his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and [so did] all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachmas' weight of gold, even of unstamped [gold].
Ses frères, ses sœurs et ses anciens amis vinrent tous le visiter et mangèrent avec lui dans sa maison. Ils le plaignirent et le consolèrent de tous les malheurs que Yahweh avait fait venir sur lui; et ils lui firent don chacun d’une késita et d’un anneau d’or.
12 And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, [more] than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures.
Et Yahweh bénit les derniers temps de Job plus encore que les premiers, et il posséda quatorze mille brebis, six mille chameaux, mille paires de bœufs et mille ânesses.
13 And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
Il eut sept fils et trois filles;
14 And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthaea's horn.
il nomma la première Jémima, la deuxième Ketsia et la troisième Kéren-Hapouk.
15 And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer [women] than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance amongst their brethren.
On ne trouvait pas dans toute la terre d’aussi belles femmes que les filles de Job, et leur père leur donna une part d’héritage parmi leurs frères.
16 And Job lived after [his] affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation.
Job vécut après cela cent quarante ans, et il vit ses fils et les fils de ses fils jusqu’à la quatrième génération.
17 And Job died, an old man and full of days.
Et Job mourut vieux et rassasié de jours.
