Job 42
1 Alors, répondant au Seigneur, Job dit:
Then Job replied to Yahweh. [He said],
2 Je sais que vous pouvez toutes choses, et qu’aucune pensée ne vous est cachée.
“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, dans son manque d’intelligence, prétend cacher ses desseins à Dieu? C’est pourquoi j’ai parlé d’une manière insensée, et j’ai dit des choses qui surpassaient outre mesure ma science.
[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 Ecoutez, et moi je parlerai; je vous interrogerai, et répondez-moi.
You said to me, ‘Listen while I talk to you. I want to ask you some questions, so prepare yourself to answer them.’
5 Je vous avais entendu au moyen de mon oreille; mais maintenant c’est mon œil qui vous voit.
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 m’accuse moi-même et je fais pénitence dans la poussière et 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 Or après que le Seigneur eut adressé ces paroles à Job, il dit à Eliphaz, le Thémanite: Ma fureur s’est irritée contre toi et contre tes deux amis, parce que vous n’avez pas parlé devant moi avec droiture, comme 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 donc avec vous sept taureaux et sept béliers, et allez vers mon serviteur Job, et offrez un holocauste pour vous. Or Job, mon serviteur, priera pour vous, j’accueillerai sa face, afin que votre imprudence ne vous soit point imputée; car vous ne’ m’avez pas parlé avec droiture, comme 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 Eliphaz, le Thémanite, et Baldab, le Subite, et Sophar, le Naamathite, s’en allèrent donc, et firent comme leur avait dit le Seigneur, et le Seigneur accueillit la face 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 Le Seigneur aussi fut fléchi par la pénitence de Job, lorsqu’il priait pour ses amis. Et le Seigneur ajouta le double à tout ce qui avait appartenu à Job.
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 Alors vinrent vers lui tous ses frères et toutes ses sœurs et tous ceux qui l’avaient connu auparavant, et ils mangèrent avec lui du pain dans sa maison, et ils secouèrent la tête sur lui, et ils le consolèrent de tout le mal que lui avait envoyé le Seigneur, et ils lui donnèrent chacun une brebis et un pendant d’oreille 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 Mais le Seigneur bénit Job dans les derniers jours plus que dans ses premiers. Et il eut 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 aussi sept fils et trois filles.
And he also had seven [more] sons and three [more] daughters.
14 Et il appela le nom de l’une, Jour, le nom de la seconde, Cassie, et le nom de la troisième Cornustibie.
He named the first daughter Jemimah, he named the second daughter Keziah, and he named the third daughter Keren-Happuch.
15 Or il ne se trouva pas sur toute la terre des femmes belles comme les filles de Job; et leur père leur donna un 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 Or Job vécut après cela cent quarante ans; et il vit ses fils et les fils de ses fils jusqu’à la quatrième génération, et il mourut vieux et plein de jours.
After that, Job lived 140 more years. Before he died, he (saw/enjoyed being with) his great-great-grandchildren.
He was very old [DOU] when he died.
