Livre de Job 23

Bible de Jérusalem	New Jerusalem Bible
¹ Job prit la parole et dit:	¹ Job spoke next. He said:
² C'est toujours une révolte que ma plainte; sa main reste pesante, malgré mon gémissement.	² My lament is stil rebellious; despite my groans, his hand is just as heavy.
³ Oh! Si je savais comment l'atteindre, parvenir jusqu'à sa demeure,	³ Wil no one help me to know how to travel to his dwel ing?
⁴ j'ouvrirais un procès devant lui, ma bouche serait pleine de griefs.	⁴ I should set out my case to him, advancing any number of grievances.
⁵ Je connaîtrais les termes de sa réponse, attentif à ce qu'il me dirait.	⁵ Then I could learn his defence, every word of it, taking note of everything he said to me.
⁶ Jetterait-il toute sa force dans ce débat avec moi? Non, il lui suffirait de me prêter attention.	⁶ Would he put al his strength into this debate with me? No, he would only have to give his attention tome,
⁷ Il reconnaîtrait dans son adversaire un homme droit, et je ferais triompher ma cause à jamais.	⁷ to recognise his opponent as upright and so I should win my case for ever.
⁸ Si je vais vers l'orient, il est absent; vers l'occident, je ne l'aperçois pas.	⁸ If I go to the east, he is not there; or to the west, I stil cannot see him.
⁹ Quand je le cherche au nord, il n'est pas discernable, il reste invisible, si je me tourne au midi.	⁹ If I seek him in the north, he is not to be found, invisible as ever, if I turn to the south.
¹⁰ Et pourtant, toutes mes démarches, il les connaît! Qu'il me passe au creuset: or pur j'en sortirai!	¹⁰ And yet he knows every step I take! Let him test me in the crucible: I shall come out pure gold.
¹¹ Mon pied s'est attaché à ses pas, j'ai suivi sa route sans dévier;	¹¹ My footsteps have fol owed close in his, I have walked in his way without swerving;
¹² je n'ai pas négligé le commandement de ses lèvres, j'ai abrité dans mon sein les paroles de sa bouche.	¹² I have not neglected the commandment of his lips, in my heart I have cherished the words of hismouth.
¹³ Mais lui décide, qui le fera changer? Ce qu'il a projeté, il l'accomplit.	¹³ But once he has made up his mind, who can change it? Whatever he plans, that he carries out.
¹⁴ Il exécutera donc ma sentence, comme tant d'autres de ses décrets!	¹⁴ No doubt, then, but he wil carry out my sentence, like so many other decrees that he has made.
¹⁵ C'est pourquoi, devant lui, je suis terrifié; plus j'y songe, plus il me fait peur.	¹⁵ That is why I am ful of fear before him, and the more I think, the greater grows my dread of him.
¹⁶ Dieu a brisé mon courage, Shaddaï me remplit d'effroi.	¹⁶ God has undermined my courage, Shaddai has filled me with fear.
¹⁷ Car je n'ai pas été anéanti devant les ténèbres, mais il a recouvert ma face d'obscurité.	¹⁷ The darkness having failed to destroy me, I am plunged back into obscurity by him!