Job 42

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	JERUSALEM
1 Then Job, responding to the Lord, said:	1 Et Job fit cette réponse à Yahvé:
2 I know that you are able to do all things, and that no thoughts are hidden from you.	2 Je sais que tu es tout-puissant: ce que tu conçois, tu peux le réaliser.
3 So, who is it that would disguise a lack of knowledge as counsel? Therefore, I have been speaking foolishly, about things whose measure exceeds my knowledge.	3 J'étais celui qui voile tes plans, par des propos dénués de sens. Aussi as-tu raconté des oeuvresgrandioses que je ne comprends pas, des merveilles qui me dépassent et que j'ignore.
4 Listen, and I will speak. I will question you, and you may answer me.	4 (Ecoute, laisse-moi parler: je vais t'interroger et tu m'instruiras.)
5 By paying attention with the ear, I have heard you, but now my eye sees you.	5 Je ne te connaissais que par ouï-dire, mais maintenant mes yeux t'ont vu.
6 Therefore, I find myself reprehensible, and I will do penance in embers and ashes.	6 Aussi je me rétracte et m'afflige sur la poussière et sur la cendre.
7 But after the Lord had finished speaking these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath has been kindled against you, and against your two friends, because you have not been speaking correctly in my eyes, as my servant Job has done.	7 Après qu'il eut ainsi parlé à Job, Yahvé s'adressa à Eliphaz de Témân: "Ma colère s'est enflamméecontre toi et tes deux amis, car vous n'avez pas parlé de moi avec droiture comme l'a fait mon serviteur Job.
8 Therefore, have seven bulls and seven rams brought to you, and go to my servant Job, and offer these as a holocaust for yourselves. But also, my servant Job will pray for you; I will accept his face, so that foolishness will not be imputed to you. For you have not been speaking correctly about me, as my servant Job has done.	8 Et maintenant, procurez-vous sept taureaux et sept béliers, puis allez vers mon serviteur Job. Vousoffrirez pour vous un holocauste, tandis que mon serviteur Job priera pour vous. J'aurai égard à lui et ne vousinfligerai pas ma disgrâce pour n'avoir pas, comme mon serviteur Job, parlé avec droiture de moi."
9 So Eliphaz the Themanite, and Baldad the Suhite, and Zophar the Naamathite departed, and they did just as the Lord had spoken to them, and the Lord accepted the face of Job.	9 Eliphaz de Témân, Bildad de Shuah, Cophar de Naamat s'en furent exécuter l'ordre de Yahvé. EtYahvé eut égard à Job.
10 Likewise, the Lord was moved by the repentance of Job, when he prayed for his friends. And the Lord gave to Job twice as much as he had before.	10 Et Yahvé restaura la situation de Job, tandis qu'il intercédait pour ses amis; et même Yahvé accrut audouble tous les biens de Job.
11 Yet all his brethren came to him, and all his sisters, and everyone who had known him before, and they ate bread with him in his house. They also shook their heads over him and comforted him, because of all the bad things that God had inflicted on him. And each one of them gave him one female sheep, and one earring of gold.	11 Celui-ci vit venir vers lui tous ses frères et toutes ses soeurs ainsi que tous ceux qui le fréquentaientautrefois. Partageant le pain avec lui dans sa maison, ils s'apitoyaient sur lui et le consolaient de tous les mauxque Yahvé lui avait infligés. Chacun lui fit cadeau d'une pièce d'argent, chacun lui laissa un anneau d'or.
12 And the Lord blessed the latter end of Job even more than his beginning. And he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand pairs of oxen, and a thousand she-donkeys.	12 Yahvé bénit la condition dernière de Job plus encore que l'ancienne. Il posséda 14.000 brebis, 6.000chameaux, mille paires de boeufs et mille ânesses.
13 And he had seven sons and three daughters.	13 Il eut sept fils et trois filles.
14 And he called the name of one, Daylight, and the name of the second, Cinnamon, and the name of the third, Horn of Cosmetics.	14 La première, il la nomma "Tourterelle", la seconde "Cinnamome" et la troisième "Corne à fard."
15 And, in the whole world, there were not found women so beautiful as the daughters of Job. And so their father gave them an inheritance along with their brothers.	15 Dans tout le pays on ne trouvait pas d'aussi belles femmes que les filles de Job. Et leur père leurdonna une part d'héritage en compagnie de leurs frères.
16 But Job lived long after these events, for a hundred and forty years, and he saw his children, and his children’s children, all the way to the fourth generation, and he died an old man and full of days.	16 Après cela Job vécut encore 140 ans, et il vit ses fils et les fils de ses fils jusqu'à la quatrièmegénération.
	17 Puis Job mourut chargé d'ans et rassasié de jours.