Job 2
1 Or il arriva un jour que les enfants de Dieu vinrent pour se présenter devant l'Eternel, et que Satan aussi entra parmi eux pour se présenter devant l'Eternel.
On another day, the angels came again and gathered together in front of Yahweh, and Satan came too.
2 Et l'Eternel dit à Satan: D'où viens-tu? Et Satan répondit à l'Eternel, en disant: Je viens de courir sur la terre, et de m'y promener.
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 l'Eternel dit à Satan: N'as-tu point considéré mon serviteur Job, qui n'a point d'égal sur la terre; homme sincère et droit, craignant Dieu, et se détournant du mal? et qui même retient encore son intégrité, quoique tu m'aies incité contre lui pour l'engloutir sans sujet.
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 Satan répondit à l'Eternel, en disant: Chacun donnera peau pour peau, et tout ce qu'il a, pour sa vie.
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 Mais étends maintenant ta main, et frappe ses os et sa chair, [et tu verras] s'il ne te blasphème point en face.
But if you harm his body [MTY], he will surely curse you openly [IDM]!”
6 Et l'Eternel dit à Satan: Voici il est en ta main; seulement ne touche point à 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 Ainsi Satan sortit de devant l'Eternel, et frappa Job d'un ulcère malin, depuis la plante de son pied jusqu'au sommet de la tête.
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 test pour s'en gratter; et était assis sur les cendres.
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 sa femme lui dit: Conserveras-tu encore ton intégrité? Bénis Dieu, 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 Et il lui répondit: Tu parles comme une femme insensée. Quoi! nous recevrions de Dieu les biens, et nous n'en recevrions pas les maux? En tout cela Job ne pécha point par ses lèvres.
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 Or trois des intimes amis de Job, Eliphas Témanite, Bildad Suhite, et Tsophar Nahamathite, ayant appris tous les maux qui lui étaient arrivés, vinrent chacun du lieu de leur demeure, après être convenus ensemble d'un jour pour venir se condouloir avec lui, 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 levant leurs yeux de loin ils ne le reconnurent point, et élevant leur voix ils pleurèrent; et ils déchirèrent chacun leur manteau, et répandirent de la poudre sur leurs têtes [en la jetant] vers les cieux.
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 Et ils s'assirent à terre avec lui, pendant sept jours et sept nuits, et nul d'eux ne lui dit rien, parce qu'ils voyaient que sa douleur était fort grande.
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].
