Job 42
1 Then Job, responding to the Lord, said:
Alors Job répondit à l'Eternel, et dit:
2 I know that you are able to do all things, and that no thoughts are hidden from you.
Je sais que tu peux tout, et qu'on ne te saurait empêcher de faire ce que tu penses.
3 So, who is it that would disguise a lack of knowledge as counsel? Therefore, I have been speaking foolishly, about things whose measure exceeds my knowledge.
Qui est celui-ci, [as-tu dit], qui étant sans science, [entreprend] d'obscurcir [mon] conseil? J'ai donc parlé, et je n'y entendais rien; ces choses sont trop merveilleuses pour moi, et je n'[y] connais rien.
4 Listen, and I will speak. I will question you, and you may answer me.
Ecoute maintenant, et je parlerai; je t'interrogerai, et tu m'enseigneras.
5 By paying attention with the ear, I have heard you, but now my eye sees you.
J'avais ouï de mes oreilles parler de toi; mais maintenant mon œil t'a vu.
6 Therefore, I find myself reprehensible, and I will do penance in embers and ashes.
C'est pourquoi j'ai horreur [d'avoir ainsi parlé], et je m'en repens sur la poudre et sur la cendre.
7 But after the Lord had finished speaking these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath has been kindled against you, and against your two friends, because you have not been speaking correctly in my eyes, as my servant Job has done.
Or après que l'Eternel eut dit ces paroles à Job, il dit à Eliphas Témanite: Ma fureur est embrasée contre toi, et contre tes deux compagnons; parce que vous n'avez pas parlé droitement de moi comme Job mon serviteur.
8 Therefore, have seven bulls and seven rams brought to you, and go to my servant Job, and offer these as a holocaust for yourselves. But also, my servant Job will pray for you; I will accept his face, so that foolishness will not be imputed to you. For you have not been speaking correctly about me, as my servant Job has done.
C'est pourquoi prenez maintenant sept taureaux, et sept béliers, et allez vers Job mon serviteur, et offrez un holocauste pour vous, et Job mon serviteur priera pour vous; (car certainement j'exaucerai sa prière, ) afin que je ne vous traite pas selon votre folie; parce que vous n'avez pas parlé droitement devant moi, comme a fait Job mon serviteur.
9 So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Zophar the Naamathite departed, and they did just as the Lord had spoken to them, and the Lord accepted the face of Job.
Ainsi Eliphas Témanite, et Bildad Suhite, [et] Tsophar Nahamathite vinrent, et firent ce que l'Eternel leur avait commandé; et l'Eternel exauça la prière de Job.
10 Likewise, the Lord was moved by the repentance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave to Job twice as much as he had before.
Et l'Eternel tira Job de sa captivité quand il eut prié pour ses amis; et il rendit à Job le double de tout ce qu'il avait eu.
11 Yet all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and everyone who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house. They also shook their heads over him and comforted him, because of all the bad things that God had inflicted on him. And each one of them gave him one female sheep, and one earring of gold.
Aussi tous ses frères, et toutes ses sœurs, et tous ceux qui l'avaient connu auparavant, vinrent vers lui, et mangèrent avec lui dans sa maison, et lui ayant témoigné qu'ils compatissaient à son état, ils le consolèrent de tout le mal, que l'Eternel avait fait venir sur lui; et chacun d'eux lui donna une pièce d'argent, et chacun une bague d'or.
12 And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job even more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.
Ainsi l'Eternel bénit le dernier état de Job plus que le premier, tellement qu'il eut quatorze mille brebis, et six mille chameaux, et mille couples de bœufs, et mille ânesses.
13 And he had seven sons and three daughters.
Il eut aussi sept fils, et trois filles.
14 And he called the name of one, Daylight, and the name of the second, Cinnamon, and the name of the third, Horn of Cosmetics.
Et il appela le nom de l'une Jémina, et le nom de l'autre Ketsiha, et le nom de la troisième Kéren-happuch.
15 And, in the whole world, there were not found women so beautiful as the daughters of Job. And so their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.
Et il ne se trouva point dans tout le pays de si belles femmes, que les filles de Job; et leur père leur donna héritage entre leurs frères.
16 But Job lived long after these events, for a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children’s children, all the way to the fourth generation,
Et Job vécut après ces choses-là cent quarante ans, et il vit ses fils, et les fils de ses fils, jusqu'à la quatrième génération.
17 and he died an old man and full of days.
Puis il mourut âgé et rassasié de jours.
