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1. Alors Job prit la parole et dit:

1. Again Job answered and said:

2. Oui, aujourd'hui ma plainte est amère, et pourtant ma main retient mes soupirs.

2. Though I know my complaint is bitter, his hand is heavy upon me in my groanings.

3. Oh! Qui me donnera de savoir où le trouver, d'arriver jusqu'à son trône!

3. Oh, that today I might find him, that I might come to his judgment seat!

4. Je plaiderais ma cause devant lui, et je remplirais ma bouche d'arguments.

4. I would set out my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments;

5. Je saurais les raisons qu'il peut m'opposer, je verrais ce qu'il peut avoir à me dire.

5. I would learn the words with which he would answer, and understand what he would reply to me.

6. M'opposerait-il la grandeur de sa puissance? Ne jetterait-il pas au moins les yeux sur moi?

6. Even should he contend against me with his great power, yet, would that he himself might heed me!

7. Alors l'innocent discuterait avec lui, et je m'en irais absous pour toujours par mon juge.

7. There the upright man might reason with him, and I should once and for all preserve my rights.

8. Mais si je vais à l'orient, il n'y est pas; à l'occident, je ne l'aperçois pas.

8. But if I go to the east, he is not there; or to the west, I cannot perceive him;

9. Est-il occupé au septentrion, je ne le vois pas; se cache-t-il au midi, je ne puis le découvrir.

9. Where the north enfolds him, I behold him not; by the south he is veiled, and I see him not.

10. Cependant il connaît les sentiers où je marche; qu'il m'examine, je sortirai pur comme l'or.

10. Yet he knows my way; if he proved me, I should come forth as gold.

11. Mon pied a toujours foulé ses traces; je me suis tenu dans sa voie sans dévier.

11. My foot has always walked in his steps; his way I have kept and have not turned aside.

12. Je ne me suis pas écarté des préceptes de ses lèvres; j'ai fait plier ma volonté aux paroles de sa bouche.

12. From the commands of his lips I have not departed; the words of his mouth I have treasured in my heart.

13. Mais il a une pensée: qui l'en fera revenir? Ce qu'il désire, il l'exécute.

13. But he had decided, and who can say him nay? What he desires, that he does.

14. Il accomplira donc ce qu'il a décrété à mon sujet, et de pareils desseins, il en a beaucoup.

14. For he will carry out what is appointed for me; and many such things may yet be in his mind.

15. Voilà pourquoi je me trouble en sa présence; quand j'y pense, j'ai peur de lui.

15. Therefore am I dismayed before him; when I take thought, I fear him.

16. Dieu fait fondre mon coeur; le Tout-Puissant me remplit d'effroi.

16. Indeed God has made my courage fail; the Almighty has put me in dismay.

17. Car ce ne sont pas les ténèbres qui me consument, ni l'obscurité dont ma face est voilée.

17. Yes, would that I had vanished in darkness, and that thick gloom were before me to conceal me.



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