Job 42
1 Then Job answered and said to the Lord,
Alors Job répondit à l'Éternel, et dit:
2 I know that you can do all things, and nothing is impossible with you.
Je sais que tu peux tout, et qu'on ne saurait t'empêcher d'accomplir un dessein.
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?
“Qui obscurcit mes plans sans science? “J'ai parlé et je ne comprenais pas; ce sont des choses trop merveilleuses pour moi, et je ne les connais point.
4 But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask you, and do you teach me.
“Écoute donc et je parlerai; je t'interrogerai et tu m'instruiras. “
5 I have heard the report of you by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen you.
Mes oreilles avaient 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 je 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].
Or, après que l'Éternel eut ainsi parlé à Job, il dit à Éliphaz, de Théman: Ma colère est enflammée contre toi et contre tes deux amis, parce que vous n'avez pas parlé avec droiture devant moi, comme Job, mon serviteur.
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 taureaux et sept béliers, et allez vers mon serviteur Job, offrez un holocauste pour vous, et Job, mon serviteur, priera pour vous; et par égard pour lui, je ne vous traiterai pas selon votre folie, car vous n'avez pas parlé avec droiture devant moi, comme 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.
Et Éliphaz, de Théman, Bildad, de Shuach, et Tsophar, de Naama, allèrent et firent comme leur avait dit l'Éternel, et l'Éternel eut égard à 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.
Et l'Éternel rétablit Job dans ses biens, quand il eut prié pour ses amis; et il lui rendit au double tout ce qu'il avait eu.
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].
Tous ses frères, et toutes ses sœurs, tous ceux qui l'avaient connu auparavant vinrent vers lui, et mangèrent avec lui dans sa maison. Ils lui firent leurs condoléances, et le consolèrent au sujet de tout le mal que l'Éternel avait fait venir sur lui, et chacun lui donna une késita et 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.
Ainsi l'Éternel bénit le dernier état de Job plus que le premier; il eut quatorze mille brebis, six mille chameaux, et mille couples 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 donna à la première le nom de Jémima (colombe), à la seconde celui de Ketsia (parfum), à la troisième celui de Kéren-Happuc (flacon de fard).
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.
Et il ne se trouvait pas de femmes aussi belles que les filles de Job dans tout le pays; et leur père leur donna un héritage avec 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 ces choses, cent quarante ans, et 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 il mourut âgé et rassasié de jours.
