Job 42
1 Job répondit à l’Eternel et dit:
Then Job answered and said to the Lord,
2 Je sais que tu peux tout et qu’aucune conception ne dépasse ta puissance.
I know that you can do all things, and nothing is impossible with you.
3 "Qui ose disais-tu dénigrer mes desseins faute d’intelligence?" Oui, je me suis exprimé sur ce que je ne comprenais pas, sur des choses trop merveilleuses pour moi, que je ne connaissais pas.
For who is he that hides counsel from you? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from you? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?
4 "Ecoute-donc ajoutais-tu, c’est moi qui parlerai; je vais t’interroger et tu m’instruiras."
But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask you, and do you teach me.
5 Je ne te connaissais que par ouï-dire; mais maintenant je t’ai vu de mes propres yeux.
I have heard the report of you by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen you.
6 C’Est pourquoi je me rétracte et me repens sur la poussière et sur la cendre.
Therefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.
7 Après que l’Eternel eut adressé toutes ces paroles à Job, il dit à Eliphaz de Témàn: "Ma colère est enflammée contre toi et contre tes deux amis, parce que vous n’avez point parlé de moi avec rectitude comme mon serviteur Job.
And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, [that] the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thaemanite, You have sinned, and your two friends: for you have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job [has].
8 Maintenant donc allez prendre sept taureaux et sept béliers, puis venez trouver mon serviteur Job et offrez-les en holocauste à votre intention. Mon serviteur Job priera pour vous. Ce n’est que par égard pour lui que je ne vous infligerai pas d’humiliation, car vous n’avez point parlé de moi avec rectitude comme mon serviteur Job.
Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for you have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.
9 Eliphaz de Têmân, Bildad de Chouha et Çofar de Naama allèrent donc et firent comme l’Eternel leur avait dit, et l’Eternel eut égard à l’intervention de Job.
So Eliphaz the Thaemanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.
10 Et l’Eternel compensa les pertes de job, après qu’il eut prié pour ses amis, et lui rendit au double ce qu’il avait possédé.
And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them [their] sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before.
11 Tous ses frères, toutes ses sœurs et tous ses amis d’autrefois vinrent le trouver, mangèrent avec lui le pain dans sa maison, lui exprimèrent leurs condoléances et le consolèrent de tous les maux que l’Eternel avait fait fondre sur lui, et ils lui donnèrent chacun une kesita et un anneau d’or.
And all his brethren and his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and [so did] all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachmas' weight of gold, even of unstamped [gold].
12 Et l’Eternel bénit la fin de la vie de Job plus encore que ses débuts: il eut quatorze mille brebis, six mille chameaux, mille paires de bœufs et mille ânesses.
And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, [more] than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures.
13 Et il eut sept fils et trois filles.
And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
14 Il nomma la première Iemima, la deuxième Kecia et la troisième Kérên Happouc.
And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthaea's horn.
15 Et il ne se trouvait pas dans tout le pays de femmes aussi belles que les filles de Job; et leur père leur donna un héritage parmi leurs frères.
And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer [women] than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren.
16 Job vécut après cela cent quarante ans, et il vit ses fils, les fils de ses fils jusqu’à la quatrième génération.
And Job lived after [his] affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation.
17 Et Job mourut vieux et rassasié de jours.
And Job died, an old man and full of days.
