Job 42

1 Et Job répondit à l’Éternel et dit:

Then Job answered and said to the Lord,

2 Je sais que tu peux tout, et qu’aucun dessein n’est trop difficile pour toi.

I know that thou canst do all things, and nothing is impossible with thee.

3 Qui est celui-ci qui, sans connaissance, voile le conseil? J’ai donc parlé, et sans comprendre, de choses trop merveilleuses pour moi, que je ne connaissais pas.

For who is he that hides counsel from thee? or who keeps back his words, and thinks to hide them from thee? and who will tell me what I knew not, great and wonderful things which I understood not?

4 Écoute, je te prie, et je parlerai; je t’interrogerai, et toi, instruis-moi.

But hear me, O Lord, that I also may speak: and I will ask thee, and do thou teach me.

5 Mon oreille avait entendu parler de toi, maintenant mon œil t’a vu:

I have heard the report of thee by the ear before; but now mine eye has seen thee.

6 C’est pourquoi j’ai horreur de moi, et je me repens dans la poussière et dans la cendre.

Wherefore I have counted myself vile, and have fainted: and I esteem myself dust and ashes.

7 Et il arriva, après que l’Éternel eut dit ces paroles à Job, que l’Éternel dit à Éliphaz, le Thémanite: Ma colère s’est enflammée contre toi et contre tes deux compagnons, car vous n’avez pas parlé de moi comme il convient, comme mon serviteur Job.

And it came to pass after the Lord had spoken all these words to Job, [that] the Lord said to Eliphaz the Thaemanite, Thou hast sinned, and thy two friends: for ye have not said anything true before me, as my servant Job [has].

8 Et maintenant, prenez pour vous sept taureaux et sept béliers, et allez vers mon serviteur Job, et offrez un holocauste pour vous; et mon serviteur Job priera pour vous: car, lui, je l’aurai pour agréable, afin que je n’agisse pas avec vous selon votre folie; car vous n’avez pas parlé de moi comme il convient, comme mon serviteur Job.

Now then take seven bullocks, and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and he shall offer a burnt-offering for you. And my servant Job shall pray for you, for I will only accept him: for but his sake, I would have destroyed you, for ye have not spoken the truth against my servant Job.

9 Et Éliphaz le Thémanite, et Bildad le Shukhite, et Tsophar le Naamathite, allèrent et firent comme l’Éternel leur avait dit; et l’Éternel eut Job pour agréable.

So Eliphaz the Thaemanite, and Baldad the Sauchite, and Sophar the Minaean, went and did as the Lord commanded them: and he pardoned their sin for the sake of Job.

10 Et l’Éternel rétablit l’ancien état de Job, quand il eut prié pour ses amis; et l’Éternel donna à Job le double de tout ce qu’il avait eu.

And the Lord prospered Job: and when he prayed also for his friends, he forgave them [their] sin: and the Lord gave Job twice as much, even the double of what he had before.

11 Et tous ses frères, et toutes ses sœurs, et tous ceux qui l’avaient connu auparavant vinrent à lui, et mangèrent le pain avec lui dans sa maison; et ils sympathisèrent avec lui et le consolèrent de tout le mal que l’Éternel avait fait venir sur lui, et lui donnèrent chacun un késita, et chacun un anneau d’or.

And all his brethren and his sisters heard all that had happened to him, and they came to him, and [so did] all that had known him from the first: and they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, and wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: and each one gave him a lamb, and four drachms' weight of gold, even of unstamped [gold].

12 Et l’Éternel bénit la fin de Job plus que son commencement: et il eut 14 000 brebis, et 6 000 chameaux, et 1 000 paires de bœufs, et 1 000 ânesses;

And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job, [more] than the beginning: and his cattle were fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, a thousand she-asses of the pastures.

13 et il eut sept fils et trois filles;

And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.

14 et il appela le nom de la première Jémima, et le nom de la seconde Ketsia, et le nom de la troisième Kéren-Happuc.

And he called the first Day, and the second Casia, and the third Amalthaea's horn.

15 Et, dans tout le pays, il ne se trouvait point de femmes belles comme les filles de Job; et leur père leur donna un héritage parmi leurs frères.

And there were not found in comparison with the daughters of Job, fairer [women] than they in all the world: and their father gave them an inheritance among their brethren.

16 Et, après cela, Job vécut 140 ans, et il vit ses fils, et les fils de ses fils, quatre générations.

And Job lived after [his] affliction a hundred and seventy years: and all the years he lived were two hundred and forty: and Job saw his sons and his sons' sons, the fourth generation.

17 Et Job mourut vieux et rassasié de jours.

And Job died, an old man and full of days.