Job 42

1 Job répondit à l’Éternel et dit:

Then Job answered and said to the Lord,

2 Je reconnais que tu peux tout, Et que rien ne s’oppose à tes pensées.

I know that you can do all things, and nothing is impossible with you.

3 Quel est celui qui a la folie d’obscurcir mes desseins? Oui, j’ai parlé, sans les comprendre, De merveilles qui me dépassent et que je ne conçois 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 Écoute-moi, et je parlerai; Je t’interrogerai, 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 Mon oreille avait entendu parler de toi; Mais maintenant mon œil t’a vu.

I have heard the report of you by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen you.

6 C’est pourquoi je me condamne et je 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’Éternel eut adressé ces paroles à Job, il dit à Éliphaz de Théman: Ma colère est enflammée contre toi et contre tes deux amis, parce que vous n’avez pas parlé de moi avec droiture comme l’a fait 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 Prenez maintenant sept taureaux et sept béliers, allez auprès de mon serviteur Job, et offrez pour vous un holocauste. Job, mon serviteur, priera pour vous, et c’est par égard pour lui seul que je ne vous traiterai pas selon votre folie; car vous n’avez pas parlé de moi avec droiture, comme l’a fait 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 Éliphaz de Théman, Bildad de Schuach, et Tsophar de Naama allèrent et firent comme l’Éternel leur avait dit: et l’Éternel eut égard à la prière 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 L’Éternel rétablit Job dans son premier état, quand Job eut prié pour ses amis; et l’Éternel lui accorda le double de tout 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 Les frères, les sœurs, et les anciens amis de Job vinrent tous le visiter, et ils mangèrent avec lui dans sa maison. Ils le plaignirent et le consolèrent de tous les malheurs que l’Éternel avait fait venir sur lui, et chacun lui donna un 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 Pendant ses dernières années, Job reçut de l’Éternel plus de bénédictions qu’il n’en avait reçu dans les premières. Il posséda 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 Il eut sept fils et trois filles:

And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

14 il donna à la première le nom de Jemima, à la seconde celui de Ketsia, et à la troisième celui de Kéren-Happuc.

And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthaea's horn.

15 Il n’y avait pas dans tout le pays d’aussi belles femmes que les filles de Job. Leur père leur accorda une part d’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 amongst their brethren.

16 Job vécut après cela cent quarante ans, et il vit ses fils et 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 âgé et rassasié de jours.

And Job died, an old man and full of days.