Job, 26
1. Alors Job prit la parole et dit:
1. Then Job spoke again and said:
2. Comme tu sais venir en aide à la faiblesse, prêter secours au bras sans force!
2. What help you give to the powerless, what strength to the feeble arm!
3. Comme tu conseilles bien l'ignorant! Quelle abondance de sagesse tu fais paraître!
3. How you counsel, as though he had no wisdom; how profuse is the advice you offer!
4. A qui adresses-tu des paroles? Et de qui est l'esprit qui sort de ta bouche?
4. With whose help have you uttered those words, and whose is the breath that comes forth from you?
5. Devant Dieu, les ombres tremblent sous les eaux et leurs habitants.
5. The shades beneath writhe in terror, the waters, and their inhabitants.
6. Le schéol est à nu devant lui, et l'abîme n'a point de voile.
6. Naked before him is the nether world, and Abaddon has no covering.
7. Il étend le septentrion sur le vide, il suspend la terre sur le néant.
7. He stretches out the North over empty space, and suspends the earth over nothing at all;
8. Il renferme les eaux dans ses nuages, et les nues ne se déchirent pas sous leur poids.
8. He binds up the waters in his clouds, yet the cloud is not rent by their weight;
9. Il voile la face de son trône, il étend sur lui ses nuées.
9. He holds back the appearance of the full moon by spreading his clouds before it.
10. Il a tracé un cercle à la surface des eaux, au point de division de la lumière et des ténèbres.
10. He has marked out a circle on the surface of the deep as the boundary of light and darkness.
11. Les colonnes du ciel s'ébranlent, et s'épouvantent à sa menace.
11. The pillars of the heavens tremble and are stunned at his thunderous rebuke;
12. Par sa puissance il soulève la mer, par sa sagesse il brise l'orgueil.
12. By his power he stirs up the sea, and by his might he crushes Rahab;
13. Par son souffle le ciel devient serein, sa main a formé le serpent fuyard.
13. With his angry breath he scatters the waters, and he hurls the lightning against them relentlessly; His hand pierces the fugitive dragon as from his hand it strives to flee.
14. Tels sont les bords de ses voies, le léger murmure que nous en percevons; mais le tonnerre de sa puissance, qui pourra l'entendre?
14. Lo, these are but the outlines of his ways, and how faint is the word we hear!
