Job 5 — parallel

5:1

Crie maintenant! Qui te répondra?

“Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

5:2

L’insensé périt dans sa colère,

For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

5:3

J’ai vu l’insensé prendre racine;

I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.

5:4

Plus de prospérité pour ses fils;

His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

5:5

Sa moisson est dévorée par des affamés,

The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after .

5:6

Le malheur ne sort pas de la poussière,

For distress does not spring from the dust, and trouble does not sprout from the ground.

5:7

L’homme naît pour souffrir,

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

5:8

Pour moi, j’aurais recours à Dieu,

However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

5:9

Il fait des choses grandes et insondables,

the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

5:10

Il répand la pluie sur la terre,

He gives rain to the earth and sends water upon the fields.

5:11

Il relève les humbles,

He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

5:12

Il anéantit les projets des hommes rusés,

He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.

5:13

Il prend les sages dans leur propre ruse,

He catches the wise , and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.

5:14

Ils rencontrent les ténèbres au milieu du jour,

They encounter darkness by day and grope at noon as in the night.

5:15

Ainsi Dieu protège le faible contre leurs menaces,

He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.

5:16

Et l’espérance soutient le malheureux,

So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

5:17

Heureux l’homme que Dieu châtie!

Blessed indeed is the man whom God corrects; so do not despise the discipline .

5:18

Il fait la plaie, et il la bande;

For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

5:19

Six fois il te délivrera de l’angoisse,

He will rescue you from six calamities; no harm will touch you in seven.

5:20

Il te sauvera de la mort pendant la famine,

In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

5:21

Tu seras à l’abri du fléau de la langue,

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.

5:22

Tu te riras de la dévastation comme de la famine,

You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.

5:23

Car tu feras alliance avec les pierres des champs,

For you will have a covenant with the stones of the field, and the wild animals will be at peace with you.

5:24

Tu jouiras du bonheur sous ta tente,

You will know that your tent is secure, and find nothing amiss when inspecting your home.

5:25

Tu verras ta postérité s’accroître,

You will know that your offspring will be many, your descendants like the grass of the earth.

5:26

Tu entreras au sépulcre dans la vieillesse,

You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.

5:27

Voilà ce que nous avons reconnu, voilà ce qui est;

Indeed, we have investigated, and it is true! So hear it and know for yourself.”