Job 7
1 “People need to work hard on this earth, like soldiers do; all during the time that we are alive, we work hard [RHQ], like laborers/servants do.
L'homme ne fait-il pas sur la terre le service d'un soldat, et ses jours ne sont-ils pas comme les jours d'un mercenaire?
2 We are like [SIM] slaves who keep wanting to be in the cool shade, and we are like [SIM] workers who are waiting to be paid.
Comme l'esclave soupire après l'ombre, et comme un journalier attend son salaire,
3 God has given me many months [in which I think that it is] useless [to remain alive]; he has allotted/given to me many nights during which I feel miserable.
ainsi j'eus pour mon lot des mois de douleur, et des nuits de tourment ont été mon partage.
4 When I lie down [at night] I say, ‘How long will it be until morning?’ But nights are long, and I (toss/turn over and over) [on my bed] until dawn.
Couché, je dis: Quand me lèverai-je? la nuit finira-t-elle? et je m'excède d'agitations jusqu'à l'aube du jour.
5 My body is covered with maggots and scabs; pus oozes out of my open sores.
Mon corps se couvre de vers et d'une croûte terreuse, ma peau se roidit, et de nouveau suppure.
6 My days pass as quickly as a weaver’s (shuttle/stick that takes the thread back and forth), and they end without my confidently expecting [that things will be better the next day].
Mes jours fuient plus prompts que la navette, ils se consument, et je suis sans espoir.
7 God, do not forget that my life is [as short as] a breath [MET]; I [think that] I [SYN] will never again be happy.
Souviens-Toi que ma vie est un souffle! Mes yeux ne reverront plus de bonheur;
8 God, you [SYN] see me now, but [some day] you will not see me any more. You will search for me, but I will be gone [because I will be dead].
l'œil de celui qui me voit, ne m'apercevra plus; Tes yeux me chercheront, et je ne serai plus.
9 Like [SIM] clouds (disperse/break up) and then disappear, people [die and] descend to the place where dead people are, and they do not return; (Sheol h7585)
La nuée se dissipe et s'en va: ainsi, qui descend aux Enfers, n'en revient pas, (Sheol h7585)
10 they never return to their houses, and people among whom they lived do not remember them any more.
il ne rentre plus dans sa maison, et ses lieux ne le reconnaissent plus.
11 So, I will not be silent; while I am suffering I will speak; I will complain [to God about what has happened to me] because I [SYN] am very angry.
Aussi ne mettrai-je pas un frein à ma bouche, mais je parlerai dans l'angoisse de mon cœur, et me plaindrai dans l'amertume de mon âme.
12 [God, ] why do you watch closely what I am doing? [Do you think that] I am a [dangerous] sea monster?
Suis-je une mer? suis-je un dragon, que contre moi Tu mettes une barrière?
13 When [I lie down at night, ] I think, ‘I will be comforted here on my bed; my pain will be less while I am sleeping.’
Quand je dis: Mon lit me soulagera, ma couche portera une partie de ma peine!
14 But then you give me dreams that cause me to be afraid; you give me visions that terrify me,
alors tu m'effraies par des songes, et par des visions tu m'épouvantes.
15 with the result that I would prefer to be strangled to death than to continue to [be alive] being only a bunch of bones.
Aussi je préférerais suffoquer, mourir, à conserver ma chair.
16 I detest continuing to be alive; I do not want to live for many years [HYP]. Allow me to be alone, [because I will be alive] for only a very short remaining time [HYP].
Je dédaigne la vie! je ne vivrai pas toujours!… Suspends tes coups, car mes jours sont un souffle!
17 “We human beings are not [very important]; so, why do you pay a lot of attention to us [DOU]?
Qu'est-ce que l'homme, pour que tu l'honores, pour que tu prennes garde à lui,
18 You look at us every morning [to see what we are doing], and examine us every moment [to see if we are doing what is right].
que tu t'occupes de lui chaque matin, et l'éprouves à tous les instants?
19 (When will you stop looking at me and leave me alone [for a little time], long enough to swallow my spit?/Please stop looking at me and leave me alone [for a little time], long enough to swallow my spit.) [RHQ]
Jusques à quand les yeux ne me quitteront-ils pas, ne me laisseras-tu pas le temps d'avaler ma salive?
20 [Why do] you watch me constantly? If I sin, that certainly does not harm you! Why have you set me up like a target to shoot at? Do you consider me to be a heavy load that you are forced to carry?
Si j'ai péché, qu'ai-je pu te faire, observateur des hommes? Pourquoi me fais-tu le but de tes coups, tellement que je suis à moi-même un fardeau?
21 [If I have sinned, ] are you not able to forgive me for my sins— the things that I have done that are wrong? Soon I will lie in my grave; you will search for me, but [you will not find me because] I will be [dead and] gone.”
Et que ne pardonnes-tu ma faute, et ne passes-tu mon péché? car bientôt je dormirai dans la poudre, et tu me chercheras, et je ne serai plus.
