Job 2
1 Or, peu de jours après, les anges s'en vinrent comparaître devant le Seigneur, et le diable au milieu d'eux, comparut devant le Seigneur.
On another day, the angels came again and gathered together in front of Yahweh, and Satan came too.
2 Et le Seigneur dit au diable: D'où viens-tu? Et le diable répondit: J'arrive après avoir traversé tout ce qui est sous le ciel et parcouru toute la terre.
Yahweh asked Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan replied, “I have come from the earth, where I have been traveling back and forth, seeing what is happening.”
3 Et le Seigneur reprit: As-tu remarqué Job mon serviteur? as-tu reconnu qu'il n'a point son pareil sur la terre? C'est un homme exempt de méchanceté, sincère, irréprochable, pieux: il s'abstient de tout mal et il a conservé son innocence, et toi tu t'étais proposé vainement de détruire ce qu'il possédait.
Yahweh asked Satan, “Have you (noticed/thought about) my [faithful] servant Job? He is very godly/righteous [DOU], he greatly respects/reveres me, and he [always] avoids doing evil things. And he still acts in a very godly/righteous manner, even though you persuaded me to [let you] cause disastrous things to happen to him for no reason.”
4 Et le diable répliqua: La peau seule vaut la peau, pour sa vie l'homme donnera tout ce qui lui appartient.
Satan replied to Yahweh, “He praises you only because you bless him [IDM]. People will give up everything they have to save their own lives.
5 Etendez votre main; qu'elle touche à ses os et à sa chair; sinon il vous bénira en face.
But if you harm his body [MTY], he will surely curse you openly [IDM]!”
6 Et le Seigneur dit au diable: Je te le livre; seulement veille à conserver sa vie.
Yahweh replied to Satan, “(All right/Okay), you may do to him whatever you want to do, but do not cause him to die.”
7 Et le diable sortit de devant le Seigneur, et il frappa Job des pieds à la tête d'un mauvais ulcère.
So Satan left, and he caused Job to be afflicted with very painful boils, from the top of his head to the soles of his feet.
8 Et Job prit un tesson pour racler le pus, et il s'assit sur du fumier hors de la ville.
Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped the boils on his skin, and he sat in ashes [as people did when they were mourning for those who had died].
9 Et bien des jours s'étaient écoulés, et sa femme lui dit: Jusqu'à quand te résigneras-tu disant: J'attendrai encore et je vivrai dans l'espérance de mon salut? Dis donc à Dieu quelque parole et meurs.
His wife said to him, “Are you still trying to (be loyal to/faithfully trust in) God? You should curse God, and then you will die.”
10 Or, l'ayant regardé fixement, il lui dit: Tu parles comme une femme insensée; si nous avons accepté des bienfaits de la main du Seigneur, ne supporterons-nous pas le mal? Malgré ce qui lui était arrivé, Job ne pécha nullement des lèvres devant Dieu.
But Job replied, “You talk like people who do not know God talk. (Should we accept only the good things that God [does for us]?/We should not accept only the good things that God [does for us].) [RHQ] We should also accept bad things.” So in spite of all these [things that happened to] Job, [he] did not say anything against God.
11 Et ses trois amis: Eliphaz, roi de Théman, Baldad, tyran de Sauchée, et Sophar, roi des Minéens, ayant appris ses malheurs, vinrent auprès de lui chacun de sa contrée. Et ils arrivèrent en même temps pour le visiter et le consoler.
Among Job’s friends were Eliphaz from Teman [town], Bildad from Shuah [land] and Zophar from Naamah [land]. When they heard about all the terrible things that had happened to Job, they left their home areas and went together to Job to console/comfort him [DOU].
12 Et l'ayant aperçu de loin, ils ne le reconnurent pas; et ils jetèrent les hauts cris et ils se prirent à pleurer, et chacun d'eux déchira sa robe et se couvrit de poussière.
When they saw Job from a distance, they almost did not recognize him. They wailed loudly, they tore their robes, and they threw dust over their heads [to show how sorry they were because of what had happened to Job].
13 Il demeurèrent là sept jours et sept nuits; et nul d'eux ne parla, car ils voyaient sa plaie qui était très grande et horrible.
Then they sat on the ground with Job for seven days. None of them said anything to Job, because they saw that he was suffering greatly, [and they did not think that anything that they said would lessen his pain].
