Job 2
1 Or il arriva, lorsqu’un certain jour les fils de Dieu étaient venus et se tenaient devant le Seigneur, et que Satan aussi était venu parmi eux, et se tenait en sa présence,
Again, on the day when God’s sons came to present themselves before the LORD, Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
2 Le Seigneur demanda à Satan: D’où viens-tu? Satan, répondant, dit: J’ai fait le tour de la terre, et je l’ai traversée.
The LORD said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered the LORD, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”
3 Le Seigneur demanda encore à Satan: Est-ce que tu n’as point considéré mon serviteur Job? Il n’y en a pas de semblable à lui sur la terre; homme simple, droit, craignant Dieu, s’éloignant du mal, et conservant son innocence. Cependant toi, tu m’as excité contre lui pour l’affliger en vain.
The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
4 Satan lui répondant, dit: L’homme donnera peau pour peau et tout ce qu’il a pour sa vie;
Satan answered the LORD, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.
5 Mais envoyez votre main; touchez à ses os et à sa chair, et alors vous verrez qu’il vous maudira en face.
But stretch out your hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce you to your face.”
6 Le Seigneur dit donc à Satan: Voilà qu’il est en ta main; cependant conserve sa vie.
The LORD said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand. Only spare his life.”
7 Satan donc sortit de la présence du Seigneur et frappa Job d’une plaie horrible, depuis la plante du pied jusqu’à la tête.
So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD, and struck Job with painful sores from the sole of his foot to his head.
8 Et Job avec un tesson raclait la sanie, assis sur le fumier.
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
9 Sa femme alors lui dit: Tu demeures encore dans ta simplicité! Bénis Dieu, et meurs.
Then his wife said to him, “Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die.”
10 Job lui répondit: Tu as parlé comme une des femmes insensées. Si nous avons reçu les biens de la main de Dieu, pourquoi n’en recevrions-nous pas les maux? En toutes ces choses, Job ne pécha point par ses lèvres.
But he said to her, “You speak as one of the foolish women would speak. What? Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?” In all this Job did not sin with his lips.
11 Cependant trois amis de Job, apprenant tout le mal qui lui était arrivé, vinrent chacun de leur pays: Eliphaz, le Thémanite, Baldad, le Subite, et Sophar, le Naamathite. Car ils étaient convenus de venir ensemble le visiter et le consoler.
Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
12 Mais lorsqu’ils eurent élevé de loin leurs yeux, ils ne le reconnurent pas; et, jetant un grand cri, ils pleurèrent; puis, leurs vêtements déchirés, ils répandirent de la poussière en l’air sur leur tête.
When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and did not recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.
13 Ils s’assirent avec lui sur la terre durant sept jours et sept nuits: et personne ne lui disait une parole; car ils voyaient que sa douleur était violente.
So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
