Jb 29 (Catholique Crampon)

¹ Job reprit encore son discours et dit :
² Oh ! Qui me rendra les mois d'autrefois, les jours où Dieu veillait à ma garde ;
³ quand sa lampe brillait sur ma tête, et que sa lumière me guidait dans les ténèbres !
⁴ Tel que j'étais aux jours de mon âge mûr, quand Dieu me visitait familièrement dans ma tente,
⁵ quand le Tout-Puissant était encore avec moi, et que mes fils m'entouraient ;
⁶ quand je lavais mes pieds dans le lait, et que le rocher me versait des flots d'huile !
⁷ Lorsque je sortais pour me rendre à la porte de la ville, et que j'établissais mon siège sur la place publique,
⁸ en me voyant, les jeunes gens se cachaient, les vieillards se levaient et se tenaient debout.
⁹ Les princes retenaient leurs paroles, et mettaient leur main sur la bouche.
¹⁰ La voix des chefs restait muette, leur langue s'attachait à leur palais.
¹¹ L'oreille qui m'entendait me proclamait heureux, l'oeil qui me voyait me rendait témoignage.
¹² Car je sauvais le pauvre qui implorait du secours, et l'orphelin dénué de tout appui.
¹³ La bénédiction de celui qui allait périr venait sur moi, je remplissais de joie le coeur de la veuve.
¹⁴ Je me revêtais de la justice comme d'un vêtement, mon équité était mon manteau et mon turban.
¹⁵ J'étais l'oeil de l'aveugle, et le pied du boiteux.
¹⁶ J'étais le père des pauvres, j'examinais avec soin la cause de l'inconnu.
¹⁷ Je brisais la mâchoire de l'injuste, et j'arrachais sa proie d'entre les dents.
¹⁸ Je disais : "Je mourrai dans mon nid, j'aurai des jours nombreux comme le sable.
¹⁹ Mes racines s'étendent vers les eaux, la rosée passe la nuit dans mon feuillage.
²⁰ Ma gloire reverdira sans cesse, et mon arc reprendra sa vigueur dans ma main."
²¹ On m'écoutait et l'on attendait, on recueillait en silence mon avis.
²² Après que j'avais parlé, personne n'ajoutait rien ; ma parole coulait sur eux comme la rosée.
²³ Ils m'attendaient comme on attend la pluie ; ils ouvraient la bouche comme aux ondées de printemps.
²⁴ Si je leur souriais, ils ne pouvaient le croire ; ils recueillaient avidement ce signe de faveur.
²⁵ Quand j'allais vers eux, j'avais la première place, je siégeais comme un roi entouré de sa troupe, comme un consolateur au milieu des affligés.

Jb 29 (King James)

¹ Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
² Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
³ When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
⁴ As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
⁵ When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
⁶ When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
⁷ When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
⁸ The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
⁹ The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
¹⁰ The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
¹¹ When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
¹⁶ I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
¹⁷ And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
¹⁸ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
¹⁹ My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
²⁰ My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
²¹ Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
²² After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
²³ And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
²⁴ If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

Jb 29 (Vulgate)

¹ Addidit quoque Job, assumens parabolam suam, et dixit :
² [Quis mihi tribuat ut sim juxta menses pristinos, secundum dies quibus Deus custodiebat me ?
³ Quando splendebat lucerna ejus super caput meum, et ad lumen ejus ambulabam in tenebris :
⁴ sicut fui in diebus adolescentiæ meæ, quando secreto Deus erat in tabernaculo meo :
⁵ quando erat Omnipotens mecum, et in circuitu meo pueri mei :
⁶ quando lavabam pedes meos butyro, et petra fundebat mihi rivos olei :
⁷ quando procedebam ad portam civitatis, et in platea parabant cathedram mihi.
⁸ Videbant me juvenes, et abscondebantur : et senes assurgentes stabant.
⁹ Principes cessabant loqui, et digitum superponebant ori suo.
¹⁰ Vocem suam cohibebant duces, et lingua eorum gutturi suo adhærebat.
¹¹ Auris audiens beatificabat me, et oculus videns testimonium reddebat mihi :
¹² eo quod liberassem pauperem vociferantem, et pupillum cui non esset adjutor.
¹³ Benedictio perituri super me veniebat, et cor viduæ consolatus sum.
¹⁴ Justitia indutus sum, et vestivi me, sicut vestimento et diademate, judicio meo.
¹⁵ Oculus fui cæco, et pes claudo.
¹⁶ Pater eram pauperum, et causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam.
¹⁷ Conterebam molas iniqui, et de dentibus illius auferebam prædam.
¹⁸ Dicebamque : In nidulo meo moriar, et sicut palma multiplicabo dies.
¹⁹ Radix mea aperta est secus aquas, et ros morabitur in messione mea.
²⁰ Gloria mea semper innovabitur, et arcus meus in manu mea instaurabitur.
²¹ Qui me audiebant, expectabant sententiam, et intenti tacebant ad consilium meum.
²² Verbis meis addere nihil audebant, et super illos stillabat eloquium meum.
²³ Expectabant me sicut pluviam, et os suum aperiebant quasi ad imbrem serotinum.
²⁴ Siquando ridebam ad eos, non credebant : et lux vultus mei non cadebat in terram.
²⁵ Si voluissem ire ad eos, sedebam primus : cumque sederem quasi rex, circumstante exercitu, eram tamen mœrentium consolator.]