Job 42
1 Job répondit à l’Éternel et dit:
Then Job replied to Yahweh. [He said],
2 Je reconnais que tu peux tout, Et que rien ne s’oppose à tes pensées.
“I know that you can do everything and that no one can stop you from doing what you want to do.
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.
[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 Écoute-moi, et je parlerai; Je t’interrogerai, 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 Mon oreille avait entendu parler de toi; Mais maintenant mon œil t’a vu.
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 condamne et je 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’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.
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 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.
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 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, 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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 Il eut sept fils et trois filles:
And he also had seven [more] sons and three [more] 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.
He named the first daughter Jemimah, he named the second daughter Keziah, and he named the third daughter Keren-Happuch.
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.
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 et 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 âgé et rassasié de jours.
He was very old [DOU] when he died.
