Job 2
1 Or, un jour, il arriva que les fils de Dieu vinrent se présenter devant l’Éternel, et Satan aussi vint au milieu d’eux se présenter devant l’Éternel.
Again it happened on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan came also among them to present himself before Jehovah.
2 Et l’Éternel dit à Satan: D’où viens-tu? Et Satan répondit à l’Éternel et dit: De courir çà et là sur la terre et de m’y promener.
Jehovah said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Satan answered Jehovah, and said, "From going back and forth on the earth, and from walking up and down on it."
3 Et l’Éternel dit à Satan: As-tu considéré mon serviteur Job, qu’il n’y a sur la terre aucun homme comme lui, parfait et droit, craignant Dieu, et se retirant du mal? Et encore il reste ferme dans sa perfection, alors que tu m’as incité contre lui pour l’engloutir sans cause.
Jehovah said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? For there is none like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause."
4 Et Satan répondit à l’Éternel et dit: Peau pour peau, et tout ce qu’un homme a, il le donnera pour sa vie;
Then Satan answered Jehovah, and said, "Skin for skin. Indeed, all that a man has he will give for his life.
5 mais étends ta main et touche à ses os et à sa chair: [tu verras] s’il ne te maudit pas en face.
But put forth your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face."
6 Et l’Éternel dit à Satan: Le voilà entre tes mains, seulement épargne sa vie.
Jehovah said to Satan, "Look, he is in your power. Only preserve his life."
7 Et Satan sortit de la présence de l’Éternel; et il frappa Job d’un ulcère malin, depuis la plante de ses pieds jusqu’au sommet de sa tête.
So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head.
8 Et il prit un tesson pour s’en gratter, et il était assis dans la cendre.
And he took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with while he sat among the ashes.
9 Et sa femme lui dit: Restes-tu encore ferme dans ta perfection? Maudis Dieu et meurs.
Then his wife said to him, "Do you still hold firmly to your integrity? Curse God, and die."
10 Et il lui dit: Tu parles comme parlerait l’une des insensées; nous avons reçu le bien aussi de la part de Dieu, et nous ne recevrions pas le mal? En tout cela Job ne pécha point de ses lèvres.
But he said to her, "You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. Shall we indeed accept good at the hand of God, and shall we not accept adversity?" In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
11 Et trois amis de Job apprirent tout ce mal qui lui était arrivé et vinrent chacun de son lieu, Éliphaz, le Thémanite, et Bildad, le Shukhite, et Tsophar, le Naamathite; et ils s’entendirent ensemble pour venir le plaindre et le consoler.
Now when Job's three friends heard of all this adversity that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
12 Et ils levèrent les yeux de loin, et ils ne le reconnurent pas; et ils élevèrent leur voix et pleurèrent, et ils déchirèrent chacun sa robe et répandirent de la poussière sur leurs têtes [en la jetant] vers les cieux.
When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and did not recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and threw dust in the air over their heads.
13 Et ils s’assirent avec lui à terre sept jours et sept nuits, et nul ne lui dit une parole, car ils voyaient que sa douleur était très grande.
So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spoke a word to him, for they saw that his pain was very great.
