Livre de Job 2

JERUSALEM	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Un autre jour où les Fils de Dieu venaient se présenter devant Yahvé, le Satan aussi s'avançait parmieux.	1 And it came to pass, when on a certain day the sons of God came, and stood before the Lord, and Satan came among them, and stood in his sight,
2 Yahvé dit alors au Satan: "D'où viens-tu" -- "De rôder sur la terre, répondit-il, et d'y flâner."	2 That the Lord said to Satan: Whence comest thou ? And he answered and said: I have gone round about the earth, and walked through 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 to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple, and upright, and fearing Cod, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence ? But thou hast moved me against him, that I sho uld afflict 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, and said: Skin for skin, and all that a man hath he will 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 gut put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt gee that he will bless thee to thy face.
6 "Soit! dit Yahvé au Satan, dispose de lui, mais respecte pourtant sa vie."	6 And the Lord said to Satan: Behold be is in thy hand, but yet 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 Satan went forth from the presence Of the Lord, and struck Job with a very grievous ulcer, from the sole of the foot even to the top of his head:
8 Job prit un tesson pour se gratter et il s'installa parmi les cendres.	8 And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.
9 Alors sa femme lui dit: "Pourquoi persévérer dans ton intégrité? Maudis donc Dieu et meurs!"	9 And his wife said to him: Dost thou still continue in thy simplicity? bless 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 And he said to her: Thou hast; spoken like one of the foolish women: if we have received good things at the hand of God, why should we not receive evil? In all these things Job did not 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 all the evil that had befallen him, they came every one from his own place, Alphas the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Sophar the Naamathite. For they had made an appointment to come together and visit him, a nd 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 had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not, and crying out they wept, and rending their garments they sprinkled dust upon their heads towards 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 And they sat with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no man spoke to him a word: for they saw that his grief was very great.