Job 2
1 Le jour où les fils de Dieu vinrent se présenter devant Yahvé, Satan vint aussi parmi eux pour se présenter devant Yahvé.
On another day, the angels came again and gathered together in front of Yahweh, and Satan came too.
2 Yahvé dit à Satan: « D'où viens-tu? » Satan répondit à Yahvé: « D'aller et de venir sur la terre, et d'y marcher de haut en bas. »
Yahweh asked Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan replied, “I have come from the earth, where I have been traveling back and forth, seeing what is happening.”
3 Yahvé dit à Satan: « As-tu considéré mon serviteur Job? Car il n'y a personne comme lui sur la terre, un homme irréprochable et droit, qui craint Dieu et se détourne du mal. Il a gardé son intégrité, bien que tu m'aies incité contre lui, pour le ruiner sans raison. »
Yahweh asked Satan, “Have you (noticed/thought about) my [faithful] servant Job? He is very godly/righteous [DOU], he greatly respects/reveres me, and he [always] avoids doing evil things. And he still acts in a very godly/righteous manner, even though you persuaded me to [let you] cause disastrous things to happen to him for no reason.”
4 Satan répondit à Yahvé et dit: « Peau pour peau. Oui, tout ce que possède un homme, il le donnera pour sa vie.
Satan replied to Yahweh, “He praises you only because you bless him [IDM]. People will give up everything they have to save their own lives.
5 Mais étends maintenant ta main, touche ses os et sa chair, et il te reniera en face. »
But if you harm his body [MTY], he will surely curse you openly [IDM]!”
6 Yahvé dit à Satan: « Voici, il est entre tes mains. Seulement, épargne sa vie. »
Yahweh replied to Satan, “(All right/Okay), you may do to him whatever you want to do, but do not cause him to die.”
7 Satan sortit de la présence de Yahvé et frappa Job de plaies douloureuses, depuis la plante du pied jusqu'à la tête.
So Satan left, and he caused Job to be afflicted with very painful boils, from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.
8 Il se prit un tesson pour se gratter et s'assit au milieu des cendres.
Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped the boils on his skin, and he sat in ashes [as people did when they were mourning for those who had died].
9 Alors sa femme lui dit: « Gardes-tu encore ton intégrité? Renonce à Dieu, et meurs. »
His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to (be loyal to/faithfully trust in) God? You should curse God, and then you will die.”
10 Mais il lui dit: « Tu parles comme parlerait une femme insensée. Quoi? Recevrons-nous du bien de la main de Dieu, et ne recevrons-nous pas du mal? » Dans tout cela, Job n'a pas péché des lèvres.
But Job replied, “You talk like people who do not know God talk. (Should we accept only the good things that God [does for us]?/We should not accept only the good things that God [does for us].) [RHQ] We should also accept bad things.” So in spite of all these [things that happened to] Job, [he] did not say anything against God.
11 Et lorsque les trois amis de Job apprirent tout ce malheur qui l'atteignait, ils vinrent chacun de leur côté: Éliphaz, le Témanite, Bildad, le Shuhite, et Zophar, le Naamathite; et ils se donnèrent rendez-vous pour venir compatir avec lui et le consoler.
Among Job’s friends were Eliphaz from Teman [town], Bildad from Shuah [land] and Zophar from Naamah [land]. When they heard about all the terrible things that had happened to Job, they left their home areas and went together to Job to console/comfort him [DOU].
12 Lorsqu'ils levèrent les yeux de loin et ne le reconnurent pas, ils élevèrent la voix et pleurèrent; ils déchirèrent chacun leur robe et répandirent de la poussière sur leur tête vers le ciel.
When they saw Job from a distance, they almost did not recognize him. They wailed loudly, they tore their robes, and they threw dust over their heads [to show how sorry they were because of what had happened to Job].
13 Ils s'assirent avec lui à terre, sept jours et sept nuits, et personne ne lui adressa la parole, car ils voyaient que son chagrin était très grand.
Then they sat on the ground with Job for seven days. None of them said anything to Job, because they saw that he was suffering greatly, [and they did not think that anything that they said would lessen his pain].
