BCC ¹ Alors Sophar de Naama prit la parole et dit :

KJV ¹ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

BCC ² C'est pourquoi mes pensées me suggèrent une réponse, et, à cause de mon agitation, j'ai hâte de la donner,

KJV ² Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

BCC ³ J'ai entendu des reproches qui m'outragent ; dans mon intelligence, mon esprit trouvera la réplique.

KJV ³ I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.

BCC ⁴ Sais-tu bien que, de tout temps, depuis que l'homme a été placé sur la terre,

KJV ⁴ Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

BCC ⁵ le triomphe des méchants a été court, et la joie de l'impie d'un moment ?

KJV ⁵ That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

BCC ⁶ Quand il porterait son orgueil jusqu'au ciel, et que sa tête toucherait aux nues,

KJV ⁶ Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;

BCC ⁷ comme une ordure, il périt toujours ; ceux qui le voyaient disent : "Où est-il ?"

KJV ⁷ Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?

BCC ⁸ Il s'envole comme un songe, et on ne le trouve plus ; il s'efface comme une vision de la nuit.

KJV ⁸ He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

BCC ⁹ L'oeil qui le voyait ne le découvre plus ; sa demeure ne l'apercevra plus.

KJV ⁹ The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

BCC ¹⁰ Ses enfants imploreront les pauvres, de ses propres mains il restituera ses rapines.

KJV ¹⁰ His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

BCC ¹¹ Ses os étaient pleins de ses iniquités cachées ; elles dormiront avec lui dans la poussière.

KJV ¹¹ His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

BCC ¹² Parce que le mal a été doux à sa bouche, qu'il l'a caché sous sa langue,

KJV ¹² Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

BCC ¹³ qu'il l'a savouré sans l'abandonner, et l'a retenu au milieu de son palais :

KJV ¹³ Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

BCC ¹⁴ sa nourriture tournera en poison dans ses entrailles, elle deviendra dans son sein le venin de l'aspic.

KJV ¹⁴ Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

BCC ¹⁵ Il a englouti des richesses, il les vomira ; Dieu les retirera de son ventre.

KJV ¹⁵ He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.

BCC ¹⁶ Il a sucé le venin de l'aspic, la langue de la vipère le tuera.

KJV ¹⁶ He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

BCC ¹⁷ Il ne verra jamais couler les fleuves, les torrents de miel et de lait.

KJV ¹⁷ He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.

BCC ¹⁸ Il rendra ce qu'il a gagné et ne s'en gorgera pas, dans la mesure de ses profits, et il n'en jouira pas.

KJV ¹⁸ That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

BCC ¹⁹ Car il a opprimé et délaissé les pauvres, il a saccagé leur maison, et ne l'a point rétablie :

KJV ¹⁹ Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

BCC ²⁰ son avidité n'a pu être rassasiée, il n'emportera pas ce qu'il a de plus cher.

KJV ²⁰ Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.

BCC ²¹ Rien n'échappait à sa voracité ; aussi son bonheur ne subsistera pas.

KJV ²¹ There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.

BCC ²² Au sein de l'abondance, il tombe dans la disette ; tous les coups du malheur viennent sur lui.

KJV ²² In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.

BCC ²³ Voici pour lui remplir le ventre : Dieu enverra sur lui le feu de sa colère, elle pleuvra sur lui jusqu'en ses entrailles.

KJV ²³ When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.

BCC ²⁴ S'il échappe aux armes de fer, l'arc d'airain le transperce.

KJV ²⁴ He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.

BCC ²⁵ Il arrache le trait, il sort de son corps, l'acier sort étincelant de son foie ; les terreurs de la mort tombent sur lui.

KJV ²⁵ It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.

BCC ²⁶ Une nuit profonde engloutit ses trésors ; un feu que l'homme n'a pas allumé le dévore, et consume tout ce qui restait dans sa tente.

KJV ²⁶ All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

BCC ²⁷ Les cieux révéleront son iniquité, et la terre s'élèvera contre lui.

KJV ²⁷ The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

BCC ²⁸ L'abondance de sa maison sera dispersée, elle disparaîtra au jour de la colère.

KJV ²⁸ The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

BCC ²⁹ Telle est la part que Dieu réserve au méchant, et l'héritage que lui destine Dieu.

KJV ²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.