Job 42
1 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
Job répondit à Yahweh et dit:
2 I know that you can do every thing, and that no thought can be withheld from you.
Je sais que tu peux tout, et que pour toi aucun dessein n’est trop difficile.
3 Who is he that hides counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew 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 Hear, I beseech you, and I will speak: I will demand of you, and declare you to me.
« Ecoute-moi, je vais parler; je t’interrogerai, réponds-moi. »
5 I have heard of you by the hearing of the ear: but now my eye sees you.
Mon oreille avait entendu parler de toi; mais maintenant mon œil t’a vu.
6 Why I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
C’est pourquoi je me condamne et me repens, sur la poussière et sur la cendre.
7 And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words to Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends: for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, 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 Therefore take to you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that you have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like 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 Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as the LORD commanded them: the LORD also accepted 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 turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as 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 Then came there to him all his brothers, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought on him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of 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 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
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 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
Il eut sept fils et trois filles;
14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
il nomma la première Jémima, la deuxième Ketsia et la troisième Kéren-Hapouk.
15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brothers.
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 After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.
Job vécut après cela cent quarante ans, et il vit ses fils et les fils de ses fils jusqu’à la quatrième génération.
17 So Job died, being old and full of days.
Et Job mourut vieux et rassasié de jours.
