Job 37
Nouvelle Edition de Genève – NEG1979
37 Mon cœur est tout tremblant,
Il bondit hors de sa place.
2 Ecoutez, écoutez le frémissement de sa voix,
Le grondement qui sort de sa bouche!
3 Il le fait rouler dans toute l’étendue des cieux,
Et son éclair brille jusqu’aux extrémités de la terre.
4 Puis éclate un rugissement: il tonne de sa voix majestueuse;
Il ne retient plus l’éclair, dès que sa voix retentit.
5 Dieu tonne avec sa voix d’une manière merveilleuse;
Il fait de grandes choses que nous ne comprenons pas.
6 Il dit à la neige: Tombe sur la terre!
Il le dit à la pluie, même aux plus fortes pluies.
7 Il met un sceau sur la main de tous les hommes,
Afin que tous se reconnaissent comme ses créatures.
8 L’animal sauvage se retire dans une caverne,
Et se couche dans sa tanière.
9 L’ouragan vient du midi,
Et le froid, des vents du nord.
10 Par son souffle Dieu produit la glace,
Il réduit l’espace où se répandaient les eaux.
11 Il charge de vapeurs les nuages,
Il les disperse étincelants;
12 Leurs évolutions varient selon ses desseins,
Pour l’accomplissement de tout ce qu’il leur ordonne,
Sur la face de la terre habitée;
13 C’est comme une verge dont il frappe sa terre,
Ou comme un signe de son amour, qu’il les fait apparaître.
14 Job, sois attentif à ces choses!
Considère encore les merveilles de Dieu!
15 Sais-tu comment Dieu les dirige,
Et fait briller son nuage étincelant?
16 Comprends-tu le balancement des nuées,
Les merveilles de celui dont la science est parfaite?
17 Sais-tu pourquoi tes vêtements sont chauds
Quand la terre se repose par le vent du midi?
18 Peux-tu comme lui étendre les cieux,
Aussi solides qu’un miroir de métal fondu?
19 Fais-nous connaître ce que nous devons lui dire;
Nous sommes trop ignorants pour nous adresser à lui.
20 Lui annoncera-t-on que je parlerai?
Mais quel est l’homme qui désire sa perte?
21 On ne peut fixer le soleil qui resplendit dans les cieux,
Lorsqu’un vent passe et en ramène la pureté;
22 Le septentrion le rend éclatant comme l’or.
Oh! que la majesté de Dieu est redoutable!
23 Nous ne saurions parvenir jusqu’au Tout-Puissant,
Grand par la force,
Par la justice, par le droit souverain:
Il ne répond pas!
24 C’est pourquoi les hommes doivent le craindre;
Il ne porte les regards sur aucun sage.
Job 37
Contemporary English Version
Elihu Continues
I Am Frightened
37 I am frightened
and tremble all over,
2 when I hear the roaring voice
of God in the thunder,
3 and when I see his lightning
flash across the sky.
4 God's majestic voice
thunders his commands,[a]
5 creating miracles too marvelous
for us to understand.
6 Snow and heavy rainstorms
7 make us stop and think
about God's power,[b]
8 and they force animals
to seek shelter.
9 The windstorms of winter strike,
10 and the breath of God
freezes streams and rivers.
11 Rain clouds filled with lightning
appear at God's command,
12 traveling across the sky
13 to release their cargo—
sometimes as punishment for sin,
sometimes as kindness.
Consider Carefully
14 Job, consider carefully
the many wonders of God.
15 Can you explain why lightning
flashes at the orders
16 of God who knows all things?
Or how he hangs the clouds
in empty space?
17 You almost melt in the heat
of fierce desert winds
when the sky is like brass.
18 God can hammer out the clouds
in spite of the oppressive heat,
but can you?
19 Tell us what to say to God!
Our minds are in the dark,
and we don't know how
to argue our case.
20 Should I risk my life
by telling God
that I want to speak?
21 No one can stare at the sun
after a breeze has blown
the clouds from the sky.
22 Yet the glorious splendor
of God All-Powerful
is brighter by far.
23 God cannot be seen—
but his power is great,
and he is always fair.
24 And so we humans fear God,
because he shows no respect
for those who are proud
and think they know so much.
Job 37
King James Version
37 At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.
2 Hear attentively the noise of his voice, and the sound that goeth out of his mouth.
3 He directeth it under the whole heaven, and his lightning unto the ends of the earth.
4 After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
5 God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.
6 For he saith to the snow, Be thou on the earth; likewise to the small rain, and to the great rain of his strength.
7 He sealeth up the hand of every man; that all men may know his work.
8 Then the beasts go into dens, and remain in their places.
9 Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.
10 By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened.
11 Also by watering he wearieth the thick cloud: he scattereth his bright cloud:
12 And it is turned round about by his counsels: that they may do whatsoever he commandeth them upon the face of the world in the earth.
13 He causeth it to come, whether for correction, or for his land, or for mercy.
14 Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.
15 Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?
16 Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him which is perfect in knowledge?
17 How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind?
18 Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?
19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.
20 Shall it be told him that I speak? if a man speak, surely he shall be swallowed up.
21 And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds: but the wind passeth, and cleanseth them.
22 Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty.
23 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.
24 Men do therefore fear him: he respecteth not any that are wise of heart.
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