Job 7
1 L’homme n’a-t-il pas une vie de labeur sur la terre? Et ses jours ne sont-ils pas comme les jours d’un mercenaire?
“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.
2 Comme l’esclave soupire après l’ombre, et comme le mercenaire attend son salaire,
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.
3 Ainsi j’ai eu pour partage des mois de déception, et des nuits de misère me sont assignées.
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.
4 Si je me couche, alors je dis: Quand me lèverai-je et quand l’obscurité prendra-t-elle fin? et je suis excédé d’agitations jusqu’au point du jour.
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.
5 Ma chair est couverte de vers et de croûtes de terre, ma peau se retire et suppure.
My body is covered with maggots and scabs; pus oozes out of my open sores.
6 Mes jours s’en vont plus vite qu’une navette, et finissent sans espérance.
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].
7 Souviens-toi que ma vie n’est qu’un souffle: mon œil ne reverra pas le bien;
God, do not forget that my life is [as short as] a breath [MET]; I [think that] I [SYN] will never again be happy.
8 L’œil qui me regarde ne me reverra plus; tes yeux sont sur moi, et je ne suis plus.
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].
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)
10 Il ne revient plus dans sa maison, et son lieu ne le reconnaît plus.
they never return to their houses, and people among whom they lived do not remember them any more.
11 Aussi je ne retiendrai pas ma bouche; je parlerai dans la détresse de mon esprit, je discourrai dans l’amertume de mon âme.
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.
12 Suis-je une mer, suis-je un monstre marin, que tu établisses des gardes autour de moi?
[God, ] why do you watch closely what I am doing? [Do you think that] I am a [dangerous] sea monster?
13 Quand je dis: Mon lit me consolera, ma couche allégera ma détresse,
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.’
14 Alors tu m’effraies par des songes, tu me terrifies par des visions,
But then you give me dreams that cause me to be afraid; you give me visions that terrify me,
15 Et mon âme choisit la suffocation, – plutôt la mort que mes os:
with the result that I would prefer to be strangled to death than to continue to [be alive] being only a bunch of bones.
16 J’en suis dégoûté; je ne vivrai pas à toujours. Laisse-moi, car mes jours sont vanité.
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].
17 Qu’est-ce que l’homme que tu fasses grand cas de lui, et que ton cœur s’occupe de lui,
“We human beings are not [very important]; so, why do you pay a lot of attention to us [DOU]?
18 Et que tu le visites chaque matin, que tu l’éprouves à tout moment?
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].
19 Pourquoi ne détournes-tu pas les yeux de moi, et ne me laisses-tu pas tranquille jusqu’à ce que j’aie avalé ma salive?
(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]
20 J’ai péché; – que t’ai-je fait? Toi qui observes l’homme, pourquoi m’as-tu placé pour être l’objet de tes coups, de sorte que je suis un fardeau à moi-même?
[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?
21 Et pourquoi ne pardonnes-tu pas ma transgression, et ne fais-tu point passer mon iniquité? Car maintenant je me coucherai dans la poussière, et tu me chercheras, et je ne serai plus.
[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.”
