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Job 2
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Job 2
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Les souffrances de Job
2 Un autre jour, les anges[a] se rendirent au conseil de Dieu. L’Accusateur (Satan) vint aussi parmi eux au conseil de l’Eternel.
2 L’Eternel dit à l’Accusateur : D’où viens-tu donc ?
Celui-ci lui répondit : Je viens de parcourir la terre et de la sillonner.
3 Alors l’Eternel demanda à l’Accusateur : As-tu remarqué mon serviteur Job ? Il n’y a personne comme lui sur la terre : c’est un homme intègre et droit, un homme qui craint Dieu et qui évite de mal faire. Il persévère toujours dans son intégrité. C’est pour rien que tu m’as incité à l’accabler.
4 L’Accusateur lui répondit : Peau pour peau, tout ce qui est à lui, l’homme y renoncera en échange de sa vie. 5 Mais porte donc la main sur son corps et l’on verra s’il ne te maudit pas en face !
6 Alors l’Eternel dit à l’Accusateur : Il est en ton pouvoir, mais épargne sa vie.
7 Alors l’Accusateur se retira de la présence de l’Eternel et il infligea à Job une douloureuse maladie de peau qui s’étendit de la plante des pieds jusqu’au crâne.
8 Job prit un morceau de poterie pour se gratter, et resta assis au milieu de la cendre.
9 Sa femme lui dit : Tu persévères toujours dans ton intégrité ! Maudis donc Dieu et meurs !
10 Mais il lui répondit : Tu parles comme une insensée. Quoi ! nous recevrions de Dieu le bonheur, et nous ne recevrions pas aussi le malheur !
Au milieu de tous ces malheurs, Job ne commit pas de péché dans tout ce qu’il dit.
Les trois amis de Job
11 Or, trois amis de Job apprirent que tous ces malheurs venaient de fondre sur lui. Ils vinrent chacun de son pays. C’était Eliphaz de Témân[b], Bildad de Shouah[c], et Tsophar de Naama[d]. En effet, ils décidèrent ensemble d’aller lui témoigner leur sympathie et le consoler. 12 Lorsqu’ils l’aperçurent de loin, ils ne le reconnurent pas, et ils se mirent à pleurer à grand bruit. Ils déchirèrent leur manteau et jetèrent de la poussière en l’air, au-dessus de leur tête. 13 Puis ils restèrent là, assis par terre, à ses côtés, sept jours et sept nuits. Aucun d’eux ne lui dit un mot car ils voyaient bien combien sa souffrance était grande.
Footnotes
- 2.1 Appelés ici fils de Dieu (voir notes 1.6 ; 38.7 et Ps 29.1).
- 2.11 Eliphaz: un nom édomite (Gn 36.10-11). Témân était un village d’Edom, au sud de la mer Morte (Jr 49.7 ; Ez 25.13 ; Am 1.12 ; Ab 9).
- 2.11 Bildad appartenait peut-être à la tribu arabe descendant d’Abraham par Qetoura (Gn 25.2 ; 36.35).
- 2.11 Localité inconnue, non mentionnée dans la Bible en dehors du livre de Job (11.1 ; 20.1 ; 42.9), différente de la Naama de Jos 15.41.
Job 2
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
Job 2
Christian Standard Bible Anglicised
Satan’s Second Test of Job
2 One day the sons of God(A) came again to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them to present himself before the Lord. 2 The Lord asked Satan, ‘Where have you come from? ’
‘From roaming through the earth,’ Satan answered him, ‘and walking around on it.’
3 Then the Lord said to Satan, ‘Have you considered my servant Job? No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity,(B) who fears God and turns away from evil.(C) He still retains his integrity, even though you incited me against him, to destroy him for no good reason.’
4 ‘Skin for skin! ’ Satan answered the Lord. ‘A man will give up everything he owns in exchange for his life. 5 But stretch out your hand and strike(D) his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.’
6 ‘Very well,’ the Lord told Satan, ‘he is in your power; only spare his life.’ 7 So Satan left the Lord’s presence and infected Job with terrible boils from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.(E) 8 Then Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he sat among the ashes.(F)
9 His wife said to him, ‘Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die! ’
10 ‘You speak as a foolish woman speaks,’ he told her. ‘Should we accept only good from God and not adversity? ’ Throughout all this Job did not sin in what he said.[a]
Job’s Three Friends
11 Now when Job’s three friends – Eliphaz the Temanite,(G) Bildad the Shuhite,(H) and Zophar the Naamathite – heard about all this adversity that had happened to him, each of them came from his home. They met together to go and sympathise with him and comfort(I) him. 12 When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognise him. They wept aloud,(J) and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.(K) 13 Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights,(L) but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering(M) was very intense.
Footnotes
- 2:10 Lit sin with his lips
Job 2
New International Version
Job 2
New International Version
2 On another day the angels[a](A) came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them(B) to present himself before him. 2 And the Lord said to Satan, “Where have you come from?”
Satan answered the Lord, “From roaming throughout the earth, going back and forth on it.”(C)
3 Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.(D) And he still maintains his integrity,(E) though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason.”(F)
4 “Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give all he has(G) for his own life. 5 But now stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones,(H) and he will surely curse you to your face.”(I)
6 The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, he is in your hands;(J) but you must spare his life.”(K)
7 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the crown of his head.(L) 8 Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.(M)
9 His wife said to him, “Are you still maintaining your integrity?(N) Curse God and die!”(O)
10 He replied, “You are talking like a foolish[b] woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”(P)
In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.(Q)
11 When Job’s three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite,(R) Bildad the Shuhite(S) and Zophar the Naamathite,(T) heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.(U) 12 When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him;(V) they began to weep aloud,(W) and they tore their robes(X) and sprinkled dust on their heads.(Y) 13 Then they sat on the ground(Z) with him for seven days and seven nights.(AA) No one said a word to him,(AB) because they saw how great his suffering was.
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