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Job 4
Nouvelle Edition de Genève – NEG1979
Job 4
Nouvelle Edition de Genève – NEG1979
Reproches d’Eliphaz à Job
4 Eliphaz de Théman prit la parole et dit:
2 Si nous osons ouvrir la bouche, en seras-tu peiné?
Mais qui pourrait garder le silence?
3 Voici, tu as souvent enseigné les autres,
Tu as fortifié les mains languissantes,
4 Tes paroles ont relevé ceux qui chancelaient,
Tu as affermi les genoux qui pliaient.
5 Et maintenant qu’il s’agit de toi, tu faiblis!
Maintenant que tu es atteint, tu te troubles!
6 Ta crainte de Dieu n’est-elle pas ton soutien?
Ton espérance, n’est-ce pas ton intégrité?
7 Cherche dans ton souvenir: quel est l’innocent qui a péri?
Quels sont les justes qui ont été exterminés?
8 Pour moi, je l’ai vu, ceux qui labourent l’iniquité
Et qui sèment l’injustice en moissonnent les fruits;
9 Ils périssent par le souffle de Dieu,
Ils sont consumés par le vent de sa colère,
10 Le rugissement des lions prend fin,
Les dents des lionceaux sont brisées;
11 Le lion périt faute de proie,
Et les petits de la lionne se dispersent.
12 Une parole est arrivée furtivement jusqu’à moi,
Et mon oreille en a recueilli les sons légers.
13 Au moment où les visions de la nuit agitent la pensée,
Quand les hommes sont livrés à un profond sommeil,
14 Je fus saisi de frayeur et d’épouvante,
Et tous mes os tremblèrent.
15 Un esprit passa près de moi…
Tous mes cheveux se hérissèrent…
16 Une figure d’un aspect inconnu était devant mes yeux,
Et j’entendis une voix qui murmurait doucement:
17 L’homme serait-il juste devant Dieu?
Serait-il pur devant celui qui l’a fait?
18 Si Dieu n’a pas confiance en ses serviteurs[a],
S’il trouve de la folie chez ses anges,
19 Combien plus chez ceux qui habitent des maisons d’argile,
Qui tirent leur origine de la poussière,
Et qui peuvent être écrasés comme un vermisseau!
20 Du matin au soir ils sont brisés,
Ils périssent pour toujours, et nul n’y prend garde;
21 Le fil de leur vie est coupé,
Ils meurent, et ils n’ont pas acquis la sagesse.
Footnotes
- Job 4:18 Ses serviteurs, c.-à-d. les esprits célestes; cp. Hé 1:14
Giobbe 4
La Nuova Diodati
Giobbe 4
La Nuova Diodati
4 Allora Elifaz di Teman rispose e disse:
2 «Se qualcuno provasse a parlarti. ti darebbe fastidio? Ma chi potrebbe trattenere le parole?
3 Ecco tu ne hai ammaestrati molti e hai fortificato le mani stanche,
4 le tue parole hanno sorretto i vacillanti, e hai rinfrancato le ginocchia che si piegavano.
5 Ma ora che il male succede a te, vieni meno; ha colpito te, e sei tutto smarrito.
6 La tua pietà non è forse la tua fiducia, e l'integrità della tua condotta, la tua speranza?
7 Ricorda: quale innocente è mai perito, e quando mai furono distrutti gli uomini retti?
8 Come io stesso ho visto, quelli che arano iniquità e seminano guai, ne raccolgono i frutti.
9 Al soffio di Dio periscono dal vento della sua ira sono consumati.
10 Il ruggito del leone la voce del leone feroce e i denti dei leoncelli sono spezzati.
11 Il leone trova la morte per mancanza di preda, e i piccoli della leonessa sono dispersi.
12 Una parola mi è furtivamente giunta, e il mio orecchio ne ha colto il sussurro.
13 Fra i pensieri delle visioni notturne, quando un sonno profondo cade sui mortali,
14 uno spavento mi prese e un fremito che fece tremare tutte le mie ossa.
15 Uno spirito mi passò davanti e i peli del mio corpo si rizzarono.
16 Si fermò, ma non potei riconoscere i suo aspetto; una figura mi stava davanti agli occhi; c'era silenzio poi udii una voce che diceva:
17 "Può un mortale essere piú giusto di Dio? Può un uomo essere piú puro del suo Fattore
18 Ecco, egli non si fida neppure dei suoi servi, e riscontra difetti persino nei suoi angeli;
19 quanto piú in quelli che abitano in case di argilla, il cui fondamento è nella polvere, e sono schiacciati come una tarma.
20 Dalla mattina alla sera sono distrutti; periscono per sempre, senza che nessuno ci badi.
21 La corda della loro tenda non viene forse strappata? Essi muoiono, ma senza sapienza"».
Job 4
New International Version
Job 4
New International Version
Eliphaz
4 Then Eliphaz the Temanite(A) replied:
2 “If someone ventures a word with you, will you be impatient?
But who can keep from speaking?(B)
3 Think how you have instructed many,(C)
how you have strengthened feeble hands.(D)
4 Your words have supported those who stumbled;(E)
you have strengthened faltering knees.(F)
5 But now trouble comes to you, and you are discouraged;(G)
it strikes(H) you, and you are dismayed.(I)
6 Should not your piety be your confidence(J)
and your blameless(K) ways your hope?
7 “Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?(L)
Where were the upright ever destroyed?(M)
8 As I have observed,(N) those who plow evil(O)
and those who sow trouble reap it.(P)
9 At the breath of God(Q) they perish;
at the blast of his anger they are no more.(R)
10 The lions may roar(S) and growl,
yet the teeth of the great lions(T) are broken.(U)
11 The lion perishes for lack of prey,(V)
and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.(W)
12 “A word(X) was secretly brought to me,
my ears caught a whisper(Y) of it.(Z)
13 Amid disquieting dreams in the night,
when deep sleep falls on people,(AA)
14 fear and trembling(AB) seized me
and made all my bones shake.(AC)
15 A spirit glided past my face,
and the hair on my body stood on end.(AD)
16 It stopped,
but I could not tell what it was.
A form stood before my eyes,
and I heard a hushed voice:(AE)
17 ‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God?(AF)
Can even a strong man be more pure than his Maker?(AG)
18 If God places no trust in his servants,(AH)
if he charges his angels with error,(AI)
19 how much more those who live in houses of clay,(AJ)
whose foundations(AK) are in the dust,(AL)
who are crushed(AM) more readily than a moth!(AN)
20 Between dawn and dusk they are broken to pieces;
unnoticed, they perish forever.(AO)
21 Are not the cords of their tent pulled up,(AP)
so that they die(AQ) without wisdom?’(AR)
Job 4
King James Version
Job 4
King James Version
4 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,
2 If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?
3 Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
4 Thy words have upholden him that was falling, and thou hast strengthened the feeble knees.
5 But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.
6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?
8 Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.
9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
10 The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken.
11 The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion's whelps are scattered abroad.
12 Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
14 Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.
15 Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
16 It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying,
17 Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?
18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
19 How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
20 They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
21 Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.
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