Livre de Job 2

JERUSALEM	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Un autre jour où les Fils de Dieu venaient se présenter devant Yahvé, le Satan aussi s'avançait parmieux.	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 dit alors au Satan: "D'où viens-tu" -- "De rôder sur la terre, répondit-il, et d'y flâner."	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 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, “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 Et le Satan de répliquer: "Peau après peau. Tout ce que l'homme possède, il l'abandonne pour sauver savie!	4 Answering him, Satan said, “Skin for skin; and everything that a man has, 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 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 "Soit! dit Yahvé au Satan, dispose de lui, mais respecte pourtant sa vie."	6 Therefore, the Lord said to Satan, “Behold, he is in your hand, but even so, spare 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 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 prit un tesson pour se gratter et il s'installa parmi les cendres.	8 So he took a shard of earthenware and scraped the discharge, while sitting on a heap of refuse.
9 Alors sa femme lui dit: "Pourquoi persévérer dans ton intégrité? Maudis donc Dieu et meurs!"	9 But his wife said to him, “Do you still continue in your 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 for seven day and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his sorrow was very great.