Job 42
1 Then Job answered and said to the Lord,
Alors Job répondit à l'Eternel, 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 te saurait empêcher de faire ce que tu penses.
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 est celui-ci, [as-tu dit], qui étant sans science, [entreprend] d'obscurcir [mon] conseil? J'ai donc parlé, et je n'y entendais rien; ces choses sont trop merveilleuses pour moi, et je n'[y] connais rien.
4 But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask you, and do you teach me.
Ecoute maintenant, et je parlerai; je t'interrogerai, et tu m'enseigneras.
5 I have heard the report of you by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen you.
J'avais ouï de mes oreilles 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 j'ai horreur [d'avoir ainsi parlé], et je m'en repens sur la poudre 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'Eternel eut dit ces paroles à Job, il dit à Eliphas Témanite: Ma fureur est embrasée contre toi, et contre tes deux compagnons; parce que vous n'avez pas parlé droitement de 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.
C'est pourquoi prenez maintenant sept taureaux, et sept béliers, et allez vers Job mon serviteur, et offrez un holocauste pour vous, et Job mon serviteur priera pour vous; (car certainement j'exaucerai sa prière, ) afin que je ne vous traite pas selon votre folie; parce que vous n'avez pas parlé droitement devant moi, comme a fait Job mon serviteur.
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.
Ainsi Eliphas Témanite, et Bildad Suhite, [et] Tsophar Nahamathite vinrent, et firent ce que l'Eternel leur avait commandé; et l'Eternel exauça 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.
Et l'Eternel tira Job de sa captivité quand il eut prié pour ses amis; et il rendit à Job le double de 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].
Aussi tous ses frères, et toutes ses sœurs, et tous ceux qui l'avaient connu auparavant, vinrent vers lui, et mangèrent avec lui dans sa maison, et lui ayant témoigné qu'ils compatissaient à son état, ils le consolèrent de tout le mal, que l'Eternel avait fait venir sur lui; et chacun d'eux lui donna une pièce d'argent, et chacun une bague 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'Eternel bénit le dernier état de Job plus que le premier, tellement qu'il eut quatorze mille brebis, et 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 aussi sept fils, et trois filles.
14 And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthaea's horn.
Et il appela le nom de l'une Jémina, et le nom de l'autre Ketsiha, et le nom de la troisième Kéren-happuch.
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 among their brethren.
Et il ne se trouva point dans tout le pays de si belles femmes, que les filles de Job; et leur père leur donna héritage entre 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.
Et Job vécut après ces choses-là 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.
Puis il mourut âgé et rassasié de jours.
