Job 26
1 Et Job répondit et dit:
Then Job made answer and said,
2 Comme tu as aidé celui qui n’avait pas de puissance! Comme tu as délivré le bras qui était sans force!
How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!
3 Quel conseil tu as donné à celui qui n’avait pas de sagesse! et quelle abondance d’intelligence tu as montrée!
How have you given teaching to him who has no wisdom, and fully made clear true knowledge!
4 Pour qui as-tu prononcé des paroles, et de qui est le souffle qui est sorti de toi?
To whom have your words been said? and whose spirit came out from you?
5 Les trépassés tremblent au-dessous des eaux et de ceux qui les habitent.
The shades in the underworld are shaking; the waters and those living in them.
The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil. (Sheol h7585)
7 Il étend le nord sur le vide, il suspend la terre sur le néant.
By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.
8 Il serre les eaux dans ses nuages, et la nuée ne se fend pas sous elles;
By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.
9 Il couvre la face de son trône et étend ses nuées par-dessus.
By him the face of his high seat is veiled, and his cloud stretched out over it.
10 Il a tracé un cercle fixe sur la face des eaux, jusqu’à la limite extrême où la lumière confine aux ténèbres.
By him a circle is marked out on the face of the waters, to the limits of the light and the dark.
11 Les colonnes des cieux branlent et s’étonnent à sa menace.
The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.
12 Il soulève la mer par sa puissance, et, par son intelligence, il brise Rahab.
By his power the sea was made quiet; and by his wisdom Rahab was wounded.
13 Par son Esprit le ciel est beau; sa main a formé le serpent fuyard.
By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.
14 Voici, ces choses sont les bords de ses voies, et combien faible est le murmure que nous en avons entendu! Et le tonnerre de sa force, qui peut le comprendre?
See, these are only the outskirts of his ways; and how small is that which comes to our ears about him! But the thunder of his acts of power is outside all knowledge.
