Job 42
1 Then Job, responding to the Lord, said:
Job répondit à l’Éternel et dit:
2 I know that you are able to do all things, and that no thoughts are hidden from you.
Je reconnais que tu peux tout, Et que rien ne s’oppose à tes pensées.
3 So, who is it that would disguise a lack of knowledge as counsel? Therefore, I have been speaking foolishly, about things whose measure exceeds my knowledge.
Quel est celui qui a la folie d’obscurcir mes desseins? Oui, j’ai parlé, sans les comprendre, De merveilles qui me dépassent et que je ne conçois pas.
4 Listen, and I will speak. I will question you, and you may answer me.
Écoute-moi, et je parlerai; Je t’interrogerai, et tu m’instruiras.
5 By paying attention with the ear, I have heard you, but now my eye sees you.
Mon oreille avait entendu parler de toi; Mais maintenant mon œil t’a vu.
6 Therefore, I find myself reprehensible, and I will do penance in embers and ashes.
C’est pourquoi je me condamne et je me repens Sur la poussière et sur la cendre.
7 But after the Lord had finished speaking these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath has been kindled against you, and against your two friends, because you have not been speaking correctly in my eyes, as my servant Job has done.
Après que l’Éternel eut adressé ces paroles 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 de moi avec droiture comme l’a fait mon serviteur Job.
8 Therefore, have seven bulls and seven rams brought to you, and go to my servant Job, and offer these as a holocaust for yourselves. But also, my servant Job will pray for you; I will accept his face, so that foolishness will not be imputed to you. For you have not been speaking correctly about me, as my servant Job has done.
Prenez maintenant sept taureaux et sept béliers, allez auprès de mon serviteur Job, et offrez pour vous un holocauste. Job, mon serviteur, priera pour vous, et c’est par égard pour lui seul que je ne vous traiterai pas selon votre folie; car vous n’avez pas parlé de moi avec droiture, comme l’a fait mon serviteur Job.
9 So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Zophar the Naamathite departed, and they did just as the Lord had spoken to them, and the Lord accepted the face of Job.
Éliphaz de Théman, Bildad de Schuach, et Tsophar de Naama allèrent et firent comme l’Éternel leur avait dit: et l’Éternel eut égard à la prière de Job.
10 Likewise, the Lord was moved by the repentance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave to Job twice as much as he had before.
L’Éternel rétablit Job dans son premier état, quand Job eut prié pour ses amis; et l’Éternel lui accorda le double de tout ce qu’il avait possédé.
11 Yet all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and everyone who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house. They also shook their heads over him and comforted him, because of all the bad things that God had inflicted on him. And each one of them gave him one female sheep, and one earring of gold.
Les frères, les sœurs, et les anciens amis de Job vinrent tous le visiter, et ils mangèrent avec lui dans sa maison. Ils le plaignirent et le consolèrent de tous les malheurs que l’Éternel avait fait venir sur lui, et chacun lui donna un kesita et un anneau d’or.
12 And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job even more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.
Pendant ses dernières années, Job reçut de l’Éternel plus de bénédictions qu’il n’en avait reçu dans les premières. Il posséda quatorze mille brebis, six mille chameaux, mille paires de bœufs, et mille ânesses.
13 And he had seven sons and three daughters.
Il eut sept fils et trois filles:
14 And he called the name of one, Daylight, and the name of the second, Cinnamon, and the name of the third, Horn of Cosmetics.
il donna à la première le nom de Jemima, à la seconde celui de Ketsia, et à la troisième celui de Kéren-Happuc.
15 And, in the whole world, there were not found women so beautiful as the daughters of Job. And so their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.
Il n’y avait pas dans tout le pays d’aussi belles femmes que les filles de Job. Leur père leur accorda une part d’héritage parmi leurs frères.
16 But Job lived long after these events, for a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children’s children, all the way to 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 he died an old man and full of days.
Et Job mourut âgé et rassasié de jours.
