Job 20
1 THEN answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
Et Tsophar, le Naamathite, répondit et dit:
2 Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
C’est pourquoi mes pensées m’inspirent une réponse, et à cause de ceci l’ardeur de mon esprit [agit] en moi:
3 I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
J’entends une réprimande qui me couvre de honte, et mon esprit me répond par mon intelligence.
4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
Sais-tu bien que, de tout temps, depuis que l’homme a été mis sur la terre,
5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
L’exultation des méchants est courte, et la joie de l’impie n’est que pour un moment?
6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
Si sa hauteur s’élève jusqu’aux cieux, et que sa tête touche les nuées,
7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Il périra pour toujours comme ses ordures; ceux qui l’ont vu diront: Où est-il?
8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Il s’envole comme un songe, et on ne le trouve pas; il s’enfuit comme une vision de la nuit.
9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
L’œil l’a regardé et ne l’aperçoit plus, et son lieu ne le revoit plus.
10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
Ses fils rechercheront la faveur des pauvres, et ses mains restitueront [ce que] sa violence [a ravi].
11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
Ses os étaient pleins de sa jeunesse: elle se couchera avec lui sur la poussière.
12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
Si le mal est doux dans sa bouche, [et] qu’il le cache sous sa langue,
13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
S’il l’épargne et ne l’abandonne pas, mais qu’il le retienne dans sa bouche,
14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
Son pain sera changé dans ses entrailles en un fiel d’aspic au-dedans de lui.
15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Il a avalé les richesses, et il les vomira; Dieu les chassera de son ventre.
16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
Il sucera le venin des aspics, la langue de la vipère le tuera.
17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
Il ne verra pas des ruisseaux, des rivières, des torrents de miel et de beurre.
18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.
Il rendra le fruit de son travail, et ne l’avalera pas; il le restituera selon sa valeur, et ne s’en réjouira pas.
19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
Car il a opprimé, délaissé les pauvres; il a pillé une maison qu’il n’avait pas bâtie.
20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
Parce qu’il n’a pas connu de repos dans son désir, il ne sauvera rien de ce qu’il a de plus cher.
21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
Rien n’a échappé à sa voracité: c’est pourquoi son bien-être ne durera pas.
22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
Dans la plénitude de son abondance, il sera dans la détresse; toutes les mains des malheureux viendront sur lui.
23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
Il arrivera que, pour remplir son ventre, [Dieu] enverra sur lui l’ardeur de sa colère, et la fera pleuvoir sur lui dans sa chair.
24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
S’il fuit devant les armes de fer, un arc d’airain le transpercera.
25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
Il arrache [la flèche] et elle sort de son corps, et le fer étincelant de son fiel: les terreurs sont sur lui.
26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
Toutes les ténèbres sont réservées pour ses trésors; un feu qu’on ne souffle pas le dévorera, [et] se repaîtra de ce qui reste dans sa tente.
27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
Les cieux révéleront son iniquité, et la terre s’élèvera contre lui.
28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
Le revenu de sa maison sera emporté; il s’écoulera au jour de Sa colère.
29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Telle est, de la part de Dieu, la portion de l’homme méchant, et l’héritage qui lui est assigné par Dieu.
