Job 3
1 Après cela, Job ouvrit la bouche, et maudit son jour.
Finally, Job spoke, and he cursed the day that he was born.
2 Car prenant la parole, il dit:
He said,
3 Périsse le jour auquel je naquis, et la nuit en laquelle il fut dit: Un enfant mâle est né!
“I wish that the day when I was born could be eradicated, and also the night when I was conceived.
4 Que ce jour-là ne soit que ténèbres; que Dieu ne le recherche point d'en haut, et qu'il ne soit point éclairé de la lumière!
I wish that the day when I was born would have been covered in darkness. I wish that God who is in heaven [MTY] would have forgotten about that day, and that the sun would not have shone on it.
5 Que les ténèbres et l'ombre de la mort le rendent souillé; que les nuées demeurent sur lui; qu'il soit rendu terrible comme le jour de ceux à qui la vie est amère!
I wish that thick/intense darkness would have filled that day, and that a black cloud would have come over it and blotted out all light and caused people to be terrified.
6 Que l'obscurité couvre cette nuit-là, qu'elle ne se réjouisse point d'être parmi les jours de l'année, et qu'elle ne soit point comptée parmi les mois!
I wish that the night when I was conceived would be erased from the calendar, with the result that it would never again appear as one night in any month, and that it would not be included in any calendar.
7 Voilà, que cette nuit soit solitaire, qu'on ne se réjouisse point en elle!
I wish that no child would again be conceived on that night of the month [MET], and that no one would again be happy on that night.
8 Que ceux qui [ont accoutumé] de maudire les jours et ceux qui sont prêts à renouveler leur deuil, la maudissent!
I want those people who (curse/put evil spells on) days—those who know how to arouse/awaken the great sea monster—to curse that day.
9 Que les étoiles de son crépuscule soient obscurcies; qu'elle attende la lumière, mais qu'il n'y en ait point, et qu'elle ne voie point les rayons de l'aube du jour!
I wish that the stars that shone early in the morning on that day [after I was conceived] will not shine again. I want those stars to have wished in vain for light to shine; and that they would not have shone on that day.
10 Parce qu'elle n'a pas fermé le ventre qui m'a porté, et qu'elle n'a point caché le tourment loin de mes yeux.
[That was an evil day] because my mother was able to conceive; instead, I was born, and I have now experienced all these terrible things.
11 Que ne suis-je mort dès la matrice; que n'ai-je expiré aussitôt que je suis sorti du ventre [de ma mère]!
“I wish that I had died [RHQ] when I was born— at the time I emerged from my mother’s womb.
12 Pourquoi les genoux m'ont-ils reçu? pourquoi [m'a-t-on présenté] les mamelles afin que je les suçasse?
I wish that my mother had not [RHQ] allowed me to live. I wish that she had not nursed me.
13 Car maintenant je serais couché, je me reposerais, je dormirais; il y aurait eu dès lors du repos pour moi,
If I had died at the time when I was born, I would be asleep, resting peacefully [in the place where the dead people are].
14 Avec les Rois et les Gouverneurs de la terre, qui se bâtissent des solitudes;
I would be resting with kings whose [beautiful palaces] that they built are now in ruins (OR, who rebuilt [palaces] that had previously been destroyed), and I would be resting with their officials [who have also died].
15 Ou avec les Princes qui ont eu de l'or, [et] qui ont rempli d'argent leurs maisons.
I would be resting with princes who were wealthy, whose palaces were filled with gold and silver.
16 Ou que n'ai-je été comme un avorton caché; comme les petits enfants qui n'ont point vu la lumière!
I wish that I had been buried like a child who died in its mother’s womb and never lived to see the light.
17 Là les méchants ne tourmentent plus [personne], et là demeurent en repos ceux qui ont perdu leur force.
After wicked people die, they do not cause any more troubles; those who are very tired now will rest.
18 Pareillement ceux qui avaient été dans les liens, jouissent [là] du repos, et n'entendent plus la voix de l'exacteur.
Those who were in prison rest peacefully [after they die]; they no longer have slave-drivers who curse them.
19 Le petit et le grand sont là; [et là] l'esclave n'est plus sujet à son seigneur.
Rich people and poor people are alike after they die, and those who were slaves are no longer controlled by their masters.
20 Pourquoi la lumière est-elle donnée au misérable, et la vie à ceux qui ont le cœur dans l'amertume;
(“Why does God allow those who are suffering greatly [like me] to continue to remain alive?/I do not understand why God allows those who are suffering greatly [like me] to continue to remain alive.) [RHQ] Why does he allow those who are very miserable/distressed to keep living [RHQ]?
21 Qui attendent la mort, et elle ne vient point, et qui la recherchent plus que les trésors;
They long/want to die, but they do not die. They desire to die more than people desire to find a hidden treasure.
22 Qui seraient ravis de joie [et] seraient dans l'allégresse, s'ils avaient trouvé le sépulcre?
When they finally die and are buried, they are very happy.
23 [Pourquoi, dis-je, la lumière est-elle donnée] à l'homme à qui le chemin est caché, et que Dieu a enfermé de tous côtés?
Those who do not know where they are [eventually] going when they die [RHQ], people whom God has forced [MET] to continue to live in misery, (it is not right that they continue to live./why do they continue to live?) [RHQ]
24 Car avant que je mange, mon soupir vient, et mes rugissements coulent comme des eaux.
I continually cry very much; as a result, I cannot eat; and I can never stop groaning.
25 Parce que ce que je craignais le plus, m'est arrivé, et ce que j'appréhendais, m'est survenu.
Things that I always worried might happen to me, have happened to me; things that I always dreaded have happened to me.
26 Je n'ai point eu de paix, je n'ai point eu de repos, ni de calme, depuis que ce trouble m'est arrivé.
Now I have no peace [in my inner being], I have no peace; I cannot rest; instead, I have only troubles.”
