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Job 17
Nouvelle Edition de Genève – NEG1979
Job 17
Nouvelle Edition de Genève – NEG1979
17 Mon souffle se perd,
Mes jours s’éteignent,
Le sépulcre m’attend.
2 Je suis environné de moqueurs,
Et mon œil doit contempler leurs insultes.
3 Sois auprès de toi-même ma caution;
Autrement, qui répondrait pour moi?
4 Car tu as fermé leur cœur à l’intelligence;
Aussi ne les laisseras-tu pas triompher.
5 On invite ses amis au partage du butin,
Et l’on a des enfants dont les yeux se consument.
6 Il m’a rendu la fable des peuples,
Et ma personne est un objet de mépris.
7 Mon œil est obscurci par la douleur;
Tous mes membres sont comme une ombre.
8 Les hommes droits en sont stupéfaits,
Et l’innocent se soulève contre l’impie.
9 Le juste néanmoins demeure ferme dans sa voie,
Celui qui a les mains pures se fortifie de plus en plus.
10 Mais vous tous, revenez à vos mêmes discours,
Et je ne trouverai pas un sage parmi vous.
11 Quoi! mes jours sont passés, mes projets sont anéantis,
Les projets qui remplissaient mon cœur…
12 Et ils prétendent que la nuit c’est le jour,
Que la lumière est proche quand les ténèbres sont là!
13 C’est le séjour des morts que j’attends pour demeure,
C’est dans les ténèbres que je dresserai ma couche;
14 Je crie à la fosse: Tu es mon père!
Et aux vers: Vous êtes ma mère et ma sœur!
15 Mon espérance, où donc est-elle?
Mon espérance, qui peut la voir?
16 Elle descendra vers les portes du séjour des morts,
Quand nous[a] irons ensemble reposer dans la poussière.
Footnotes
- Job 17:16 Nous, c.-à-d. mon espérance et moi
Job 17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Job 17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Chapter 17
1 My spirit is broken, my days finished,
my burial at hand.
2 Surely mockers surround me,
at their provocation, my eyes grow dim.
3 Put up a pledge for me with you:[a]
who is there to give surety for me?
4 You darken their minds to knowledge;
therefore you will not exalt them.
5 For a share of property he informs on friends,
while the eyes of his children grow dim.
6 I am made a byword of the people;(A)
I am one at whom people spit.
7 My eyes are blind with anguish,
and my whole frame is like a shadow.
8 The upright are astonished at this,
the innocent aroused against the wicked.
9 The righteous holds to his way,
the one with clean hands increases in strength.
10 But turn now, and come on again;
I do not find a wise man among you!
11 My days pass by, my plans are at an end,
the yearning of my heart.
12 They would change the night into day;
where there is darkness they talk of approaching light.
13 [b]If my only hope is dwelling in Sheol,
and spreading my couch in darkness,
14 If I am to say to the pit, “You are my father,”
and to the worm “my mother,” “my sister,”
15 Where then is my hope,
my happiness, who can see it?
16 Will they descend with me into Sheol?
Shall we go down together into the dust?
Job 17
New International Version
Job 17
New International Version
17 1 My spirit(A) is broken,
my days are cut short,(B)
the grave awaits me.(C)
2 Surely mockers(D) surround me;(E)
my eyes must dwell on their hostility.
3 “Give me, O God, the pledge you demand.(F)
Who else will put up security(G) for me?(H)
4 You have closed their minds to understanding;(I)
therefore you will not let them triumph.
5 If anyone denounces their friends for reward,(J)
the eyes of their children will fail.(K)
6 “God has made me a byword(L) to everyone,(M)
a man in whose face people spit.(N)
7 My eyes have grown dim with grief;(O)
my whole frame is but a shadow.(P)
8 The upright are appalled at this;
the innocent are aroused(Q) against the ungodly.
9 Nevertheless, the righteous(R) will hold to their ways,
and those with clean hands(S) will grow stronger.(T)
10 “But come on, all of you, try again!
I will not find a wise man among you.(U)
11 My days have passed,(V) my plans are shattered.
Yet the desires of my heart(W)
12 turn night into day;(X)
in the face of the darkness light is near.(Y)
13 If the only home I hope for is the grave,(Z)
if I spread out my bed(AA) in the realm of darkness,(AB)
14 if I say to corruption,(AC) ‘You are my father,’
and to the worm,(AD) ‘My mother’ or ‘My sister,’
15 where then is my hope—(AE)
who can see any hope for me?(AF)
16 Will it go down to the gates of death?(AG)
Will we descend together into the dust?”(AH)
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