Livre de Job 2

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1 Et voici que revint le jour où les Fils de Dieu se présentaient devant Yahvé. Satan vint aussi, parmi eux, et se présenta devant Yahvé.	1 But it happened that, on a certain day, when the sons of God had arrived and they stood before the Lord, Satan likewise arrived among them, and he stood in his sight.
2 Yahvé lui dit: "D’où viens-tu?” Il répondit: “Je viens de parcourir la terre, je suis passé un peu partout.”	2 So the Lord said to Satan, “Where do you come from?” Answering, he said, “I have circled the land, and walked around in it.”
3 Yahvé reprit: "As-tu remarqué mon serviteur Job? Il n’a pas son pareil sur la terre: c’est un homme intègre et droit, il craint Dieu et évite le mal. C’est bien inutilement que tu m’as arraché la permission de le perdre, car il se maintient dans sa parfaite fidélité.”	3 And the Lord said to Satan, “Have you not considered my servant, Job, that there is no one like him in the land, a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil, and still retaining his innocence? Yet you have stirred me against him, so that I would afflict him to no purpose.”
4 Mais Satan répliqua à Yahvé: "Peau pour peau! On donne tout ce qu’on a pour rester en vie!	4 Answering him, Satan said, “Skin for skin; and everything that a man has, he will give for his life.
5 Peut-être pourrais-tu étendre la main pour le frapper dans ses os et sa chair. Alors sûrement il te maudirait en face!”	5 Yet send your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and then you will see whether or not he blesses you to your face.”
6 Yahvé dit à Satan: "Soit! Je te le livre, mais respecte sa vie.”	6 Therefore, the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but even so, spare his life.”
7 Satan se retira de devant Yahvé et il frappa Job de plaies purulentes, depuis la plante des pieds jusqu’au sommet de la tête.	7 And so, Satan departed from the face of the Lord and he struck Job with a very serious ulcer from the sole of the foot all the way to the crown of his head.
8 Job s’assit alors sur un tas de cendres et ramassa un morceau de poterie pour se gratter.	8 So he took a shard of earthenware and scraped the discharge, while sitting on a heap of refuse.
9 Sa femme lui dit: "Vas-tu te maintenir dans ta parfaite fidélité? Maudis Dieu et meurs!”	9 But his wife said to him, “Do you still continue in your simplicity? Bless God and die.”
10 Il lui répondit: "Tu parles comme une insensée! Si nous acceptons le bonheur que Dieu nous donne, pourquoi n’accepterions-nous pas aussi le malheur?” En tout cela, Job ne pécha pas en paroles.	10 He said to her, “You have spoken like one of the foolish wives. If we accepted good things from the hand of God, why should we not accept bad things?” In all this, Job did not sin with his lips.
11 En apprenant tous les malheurs qui étaient arrivés à Job, trois de ses amis voulurent le visiter, et ils vinrent, chacun de son pays. C’étaient Élifaz de Téman, Bildad de Chouah et Sofar de Nahama. Ils s’étaient mis d’accord pour aller le plaindre et le consoler.	11 And so, three friends of Job, hearing about all the evil that had befallen him, arrived, each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. For they had agreed to come together to visit and console him.
12 Quand de loin ils levèrent les yeux et le virent, ils ne purent le reconnaître. Ils commencèrent à se lamenter et à pleurer; chacun déchira son manteau, puis ils jetèrent en l’air de la poussière qui leur retombait sur la tête.	12 And when they had raised up their eyes from a distance, they did not recognize him, and, crying out, they wept, and, tearing their garments, they scattered dust over their heads into the sky.
13 Ils restèrent ainsi sept jours et sept nuits près de lui, assis par terre. Aucun d’eux ne lui adressait la parole, car ils voyaient combien grande était sa douleur.	13 And they sat with him on the ground for seven day and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his sorrow was very great.