Jb 18 (Catholique Crampon)

¹ Alors Baldad de Suhé prit la parole et dit :
² Quand donc mettrez-vous un terme à ces discours ? Ayez de l'intelligence, puis nous parlerons.
³ Pourquoi nous regardez-vous comme des brutes, et sommes-nous stupides à vos yeux ?
⁴ Toi qui te déchires dans ta fureur, veux-tu qu'à cause de toi la terre devienne déserte, que le rocher soit transporté hors de sa place ?
⁵ Oui, la lumière du méchant s'éteindra, et la flamme de son foyer cessera de briller.
⁶ Le jour s'obscurcira sous sa tente, sa lampe s'éteindra au-dessus de lui.
⁷ Ses pas si fermes seront à l'étroit, son propre conseil précipite sa chute.
⁸ Ses pieds le jettent dans les rets, il marche sur le piège.
⁹ Le filet saisit ses talons ; il est serré dans ses noeuds.
¹⁰ Pour lui les lacs sont cachés sous terre, et la trappe est sur son sentier.
¹¹ De tous côtés des terreurs l'assiègent, et le poursuivent pas à pas.
¹² La disette est son châtiment, et la ruine est prête pour sa chute.
¹³ La peau de ses membres est dévorée ; ses membres sont dévorés par le premier-né de la mort.
¹⁴ Il est arraché de sa tente, où il se croyait en sûreté ; on le traîne vers le Roi des frayeurs.
¹⁵ Nul des siens n'habite dans sa tente, le soufre est semé sur sa demeure.
¹⁶ En bas, ses racines se dessèchent, en haut, ses rameaux sont coupés.
¹⁷ Sa mémoire a disparu de la terre, il n'a plus de nom dans la contrée.
¹⁸ On le chasse de la lumière dans les ténèbres, on le bannit de l'univers.
¹⁹ Il ne laisse ni descendance ni postérité dans sa tribu ; aucun survivant dans son séjour.
²⁰ Les peuples de l'Occident sont stupéfaits de sa ruine, et ceux de l'Orient en sont saisis d'horreur.
²¹ Telle est la demeure de l'impie, telle est la place de l'homme qui ne connaît pas Dieu.

Jb 18 (King James)

¹ Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said,
² How long will it be ere ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
³ Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
⁴ He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
⁵ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
⁶ The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.
⁷ The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.
⁸ For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.
⁹ The gin shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him.
¹⁰ The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.
¹¹ Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet.
¹² His strength shall be hungerbitten, and destruction shall be ready at his side.
¹³ It shall devour the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall devour his strength.
¹⁴ His confidence shall be rooted out of his tabernacle, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors.
¹⁵ It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
¹⁶ His roots shall be dried up beneath, and above shall his branch be cut off.
¹⁷ His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.
¹⁸ He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
¹⁹ He shall neither have son nor nephew among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings.
²⁰ They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
²¹ Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.