Livre de Job 2

JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Un autre jour où les Fils de Dieu venaient se présenter devant Yahvé, le Satan aussi s'avançait parmieux.	1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
2 Yahvé dit alors au Satan: "D'où viens-tu" -- "De rôder sur la terre, répondit-il, et d'y flâner."	2 And the LORD said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
3 Et Yahvé reprit: "As-tu remarqué mon serviteur Job? Il n'a point son pareil sur la terre: un hommeintègre et droit, qui craint Dieu et se garde du mal! Il persévère dans son intégrité et c'est en vain que tu m'asexcité contre lui pour le perdre."	3 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.
4 Et le Satan de répliquer: "Peau après peau. Tout ce que l'homme possède, il l'abandonne pour sauver savie!	4 And Satan answered the LORD, and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life.
5 Mais étends la main, touche à ses os et à sa chair; je te jure qu'il te maudira en face" --	5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.
6 "Soit! dit Yahvé au Satan, dispose de lui, mais respecte pourtant sa vie."	6 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life.
7 Et le Satan sortit de l'audience de Yahvé. Il affligea Job d'un ulcère malin, depuis la plante des piedsjusqu'au sommet de la tête.	7 So went Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
8 Job prit un tesson pour se gratter et il s'installa parmi les cendres.	8 And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
9 Alors sa femme lui dit: "Pourquoi persévérer dans ton intégrité? Maudis donc Dieu et meurs!"	9 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
10 Job lui répondit: "Tu parles comme une folle. Si nous accueillons le bonheur comme un don de Dieu,comment ne pas accepter de même le malheur!" En toute cette infortune, Job ne pécha point en paroles.	10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
11 La nouvelle de tous les maux qui avaient frappé Job parvint à ses trois amis. Ils partirent chacun de sonpays, Eliphaz de Témân, Bildad de Shuah, Cophar de Naamat. Ensemble, ils décidèrent d'aller le plaindre et leconsoler.	11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.
12 De loin, fixant les yeux sur lui, ils ne le reconnurent pas. Alors ils éclatèrent en sanglots. Chacundéchira son vêtement et jeta de la poussière sur sa tête.	12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
13 Puis, s'asseyant à terre près de lui, ils restèrent ainsi durant sept jours et sept nuits. Aucun ne luiadressa la parole, au spectacle d'une si grande douleur.	13 So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.