Job 42

1 Job répondit à l’Eternel et dit:

Then Job replied to Yahweh. [He said],

2 Je sais que tu peux tout et qu’aucune conception ne dépasse ta puissance.

“I know that you can do everything and that no one can stop you from doing what you want to do.

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.

[You asked me], ‘(Who are you, who by speaking ignorantly, question what I plan to do?/You have no right to question what I plan to do by speaking ignorantly.)’ [RHQ] It is true that I spoke about things that I did not understand, things that are very wonderful/marvelous, and therefore I am not able to know them.

4 "Ecoute-donc ajoutais-tu, c’est moi qui parlerai; je vais t’interroger et tu m’instruiras."

You said to me, ‘Listen while I talk to you. I want to ask you some questions, so prepare yourself to answer them.’

5 Je ne te connaissais que par ouï-dire; mais maintenant je t’ai vu de mes propres yeux.

I had heard about you previously, but now [it is as though] I have seen you with my own eyes.

6 C’Est pourquoi je me rétracte et me repens sur la poussière et sur la cendre.

Therefore I (am ashamed of/withdraw) what I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show that I am sorry [for what I said].”

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.

After Yahweh said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz, “I am angry with you and your two friends, [Bildad and Zophar], because what my servant Job said about me was right/true, but what you have spoken about me was not right/true.

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.

So now you must take to Job seven young bulls and seven rams and [kill them and] burn them on the altar as a sacrifice for yourselves. Then Job will pray for you, and I will do what he requests me to do, [and I will forgive you for speaking wrongly about me]. I will not punish you, even though you deserve to be punished, because what you said about me was not right/true, but what Job said about me was right/true.”

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, Bildad, and Zophar did what Yahweh commanded them to do, and Yahweh did what Job requested him to do [for the three of them].

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.

After Job prayed for his three friends, Yahweh [healed him and] caused him to become rich again. Yahweh gave him twice as many things as 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.

Then all his brothers and sisters, and all the people who had known him before, came to his house, and they ate a meal together. They consoled/comforted [DOU] him because of all the troubles that Yahweh had allowed him to experience.

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.

Then Yahweh blessed Job in the second half of his life more than he had blessed him in the first half of his life. He now acquired/owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 2,000 oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

13 Et il eut sept fils et trois filles.

And he also had seven [more] sons and three [more] daughters.

14 Il nomma la première Iemima, la deuxième Kecia et la troisième Kérên Happouc.

He named the first daughter Jemimah, he named the second daughter Keziah, and he named the third daughter Keren-Happuch.

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.

In all of [Uz] land there were no young women who were as beautiful as the daughters of Job, and Job declared that they would inherit some of his possessions, just like their brothers would inherit some.

16 Job vécut après cela cent quarante ans, et il vit ses fils, les fils de ses fils jusqu’à la quatrième génération.

After that, Job lived 140 more years. Before he died, he (saw/enjoyed being with) his great-great-grandchildren.

17 Et Job mourut vieux et rassasié de jours.

He was very old [DOU] when he died.