Job 42
1 Et Job répondit à l'Éternel et dit:
Then Job replied to Yahweh. [He said],
2 Je sais que tu peux tout, et qu'il n'y aura jamais d'obstacle à tes plans.
“I know that you can do everything and that no one can stop you from doing what you want to do.
3 Ah! qui est-ce qui a obscurci tes décrets faute d'intelligence?… Aussi ai-je voulu expliquer ce que je ne peux comprendre, des choses qui sont hors de ma portée, et que je ne puis concevoir.
[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 O! écoute! et que je parle à mon tour! Je t'interrogerai, et tu m'instruiras.
You said to me, ‘Listen while I talk to you. I want to ask you some questions, so prepare yourself to answer them.’
5 Ce que je savais de toi n'était qu'un ouï-dire; mais maintenant je t'ai vu de mes yeux.
I had heard about you previously, but now [it is as though] I have seen you with my own eyes.
6 Aussi je me rétracte, et je fais pénitence sur la poudre 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 Et après que l'Éternel eut adressé ces discours à Job, l'Éternel dit à Eliphaz de Théman: Ma colère s'allume contre toi et contre tes deux amis, car vous n'avez pas bien parlé de moi, 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 Or maintenant prenez sept taureaux et sept béliers, et allez auprès de mon serviteur Job, et offrez un holocauste pour vous, et que Job, mon serviteur, prie en votre faveur; ce n'est qu'en considération de lui que je ne vous infligerai pas de châtiment; car vous n'avez pas bien parlé de moi, 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 Alors Eliphaz de Théman, et Bildad de Such, et Zophar de Naama allèrent, et firent comme l'Éternel avait dit; et l'Éternel eut égard à 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 Et l'Éternel rendit à Job ce qu'il avait perdu, parce qu'il pria en faveur de ses amis; et l'Éternel augmenta du double tout ce que Job possédait.
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 tous ses frères, et toutes ses sœurs, et tous ses familiers d'autrefois vinrent vers lui, et mangèrent avec lui dans sa maison, et le plaignirent, et le consolèrent de tous ses maux que l'Éternel avait fait venir sur lui, et ils lui donnèrent chacun une Kesita, et chacun un anneau 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 Et l'Éternel bénit la fin de Job plus que son commencement; et il eut quatorze mille brebis, et six mille chameaux, et mille attelages 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 et il eut sept fils et trois filles;
And he also had seven [more] sons and three [more] daughters.
14 et il donna à la première le nom de Jémina (belle comme le jour) et à la seconde le nom de Césia (parfum) et à la troisième le nom de Kéren-appuch (flacon de fard).
He named the first daughter Jemimah, he named the second daughter Keziah, and he named the third daughter Keren-Happuch.
15 Et il ne se trouvait pas dans tout le pays de femmes belles comme les filles de Job; et leur père leur donna une part d'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 Et après cela Job vécut cent quarante ans; et il vit ses fils et les fils de ses fils jusqu'à la quatrième génération.
After that, Job lived 140 more years. Before he died, he (saw/enjoyed being with) his great-great-grandchildren.
17 Et Job mourut âgé, et rassasié de jours.
He was very old [DOU] when he died.
