Job 7
Louis Segond
7 Le sort de l'homme sur la terre est celui d'un soldat, Et ses jours sont ceux d'un mercenaire.
2 Comme l'esclave soupire après l'ombre, Comme l'ouvrier attend son salaire,
3 Ainsi j'ai pour partage des mois de douleur, J'ai pour mon lot des nuits de souffrance.
4 Je me couche, et je dis: Quand me lèverai-je? quand finira la nuit? Et je suis rassasié d'agitations jusqu'au point du jour.
5 Mon corps se couvre de vers et d'une croûte terreuse, Ma peau se crevasse et se dissout.
6 Mes jours sont plus rapides que la navette du tisserand, Ils s'évanouissent: plus d'espérance!
7 Souviens-toi que ma vie est un souffle! Mes yeux ne reverront pas le bonheur.
8 L'oeil qui me regarde ne me regardera plus; Ton oeil me cherchera, et je ne serai plus.
9 Comme la nuée se dissipe et s'en va, Celui qui descend au séjour des morts ne remontera pas;
10 Il ne reviendra plus dans sa maison, Et le lieu qu'il habitait ne le connaîtra plus.
11 C'est pourquoi je ne retiendrai point ma bouche, Je parlerai dans l'angoisse de mon coeur, Je me plaindrai dans l'amertume de mon âme.
12 Suis-je une mer, ou un monstre marin, Pour que tu établisses des gardes autour de moi?
13 Quand je dis: Mon lit me soulagera, Ma couche calmera mes douleurs,
14 C'est alors que tu m'effraies par des songes, Que tu m'épouvantes par des visions.
15 Ah! je voudrais être étranglé! Je voudrais la mort plutôt que ces os!
16 Je les méprise!... je ne vivrai pas toujours... Laisse-moi, car ma vie n'est qu'un souffle.
17 Qu'est-ce que l'homme, pour que tu en fasses tant de cas, Pour que tu daignes prendre garde à lui,
18 Pour que tu le visites tous les matins, Pour que tu l'éprouves à tous les instants?
19 Quand cesseras-tu d'avoir le regard sur moi? Quand me laisseras-tu le temps d'avaler ma salive?
20 Si j'ai péché, qu'ai-je pu te faire, gardien des hommes? Pourquoi me mettre en butte à tes traits? Pourquoi me rendre à charge à moi-même?
21 Que ne pardonnes-tu mon péché, Et que n'oublies-tu mon iniquité? Car je vais me coucher dans la poussière; Tu me chercheras, et je ne serai plus.
Job 7
Legacy Standard Bible
7 “[a]Is not man (A)conscripted to labor on earth,
And are not his days like the days of (B)a hired man?
2 As a slave who pants for the shade,
And as a hired man who eagerly hopes for his wages,
3 So am I apportioned months of worthlessness,
And (C)nights of trouble are appointed me.
4 If I (D)lie down I say,
‘When shall I arise?’
But the twilight continues,
And I am saturated with tossing until dawn.
5 My (E)flesh is clothed with worms and a crust of dirt;
My skin scabs over and flows out again.
6 My days are (F)swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And come to an end (G)without hope.
7 “Remember that my life (H)is but wind;
My eye will (I)not again see good.
8 The (J)eye of him who sees me will behold me no longer;
Your eyes will be on me, but (K)I will not be.
9 A (L)cloud vanishes, and it is gone,
So (M)he who goes down to (N)Sheol does not come up.
10 He will not return again to his house,
Nor will (O)his place recognize him anymore.
11 “Indeed (P)I will not hold back my mouth;
I will speak in the distress of my spirit;
I will muse on the bitterness of my soul.
12 Am I the sea or (Q)the sea monster,
That You set a guard over me?
13 If I say, ‘(R)My bed will comfort me;
My couch will [b]ease my bitter musing,’
14 Then You frighten me with dreams
And terrify me by visions,
15 So that my soul would choose suffocation,
Death rather than my [c]pains.
16 I have (S)rejected everything; I will not live forever.
Leave me alone, (T)for my days are but a breath.
17 (U)What is man that You magnify him,
And that You set Your heart on him,
18 That (V)You [d]examine him every morning
And test him every moment?
19 [e](W)Will You never turn Your gaze away from me,
Nor let me alone until I swallow my spit?
20 (X)Have I sinned? What have I done to You,
O (Y)watcher of men?
Why have You set me as Your target,
So that I am a burden to myself?
21 Why then (Z)do You not forgive my transgression
And take away my iniquity?
For now I will (AA)lie down in the dust;
And You will seek me earnestly, (AB)but I will not be.”
Job 7
King James Version
7 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not.
9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.
10 He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.
11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;
14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
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