Job 42
1 Job répondit à Yahweh et dit:
Then Job, responding to the Lord, said:
2 Je sais que tu peux tout, et que pour toi aucun dessein n’est trop difficile.
I know that you are able to do all things, and that no thoughts are hidden from you.
3 « 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.
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.
4 « Ecoute-moi, je vais parler; je t’interrogerai, réponds-moi. »
Listen, and I will speak. I will question you, and you may answer me.
5 Mon oreille avait entendu parler de toi; mais maintenant mon œil t’a vu.
By paying attention with the ear, I have heard you, but now my eye sees you.
6 C’est pourquoi je me condamne et me repens, sur la poussière et sur la cendre.
Therefore, I find myself reprehensible, and I will do penance in embers and ashes.
7 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.
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.
8 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. »
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.
9 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.
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.
10 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.
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.
11 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.
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.
12 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.
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.
13 Il eut sept fils et trois filles;
And he had seven sons and three daughters.
14 il nomma la première Jémima, la deuxième Ketsia et la troisième Kéren-Hapouk.
And he called the name of one, Daylight, and the name of the second, Cinnamon, and the name of the third, Horn of Cosmetics.
15 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.
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.
16 Job vécut après cela cent quarante ans, et il vit ses fils et les fils de ses fils jusqu’à la quatrième génération.
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,
17 Et Job mourut vieux et rassasié de jours.
and he died an old man and full of days.
