BCC ¹ Job reprit encore son discours et dit :

KJV ¹ Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

VULC ¹ Addidit quoque Job, assumens parabolam suam, et dixit :

BCC ² Oh ! Qui me rendra les mois d'autrefois, les jours où Dieu veillait à ma garde ;

KJV ² Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

VULC ² [Quis mihi tribuat ut sim juxta menses pristinos,
secundum dies quibus Deus custodiebat me ?

BCC ³ quand sa lampe brillait sur ma tête, et que sa lumière me guidait dans les ténèbres !

KJV ³ When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

VULC ³ Quando splendebat lucerna ejus super caput meum,
et ad lumen ejus ambulabam in tenebris :

BCC ⁴ Tel que j'étais aux jours de mon âge mûr, quand Dieu me visitait familièrement dans ma tente,

KJV ⁴ As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;

VULC ⁴ sicut fui in diebus adolescentiæ meæ,
quando secreto Deus erat in tabernaculo meo :

BCC ⁵ quand le Tout-Puissant était encore avec moi, et que mes fils m'entouraient ;

KJV ⁵ When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;

VULC ⁵ quando erat Omnipotens mecum,
et in circuitu meo pueri mei :

BCC ⁶ quand je lavais mes pieds dans le lait, et que le rocher me versait des flots d'huile !

KJV ⁶ When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;

VULC ⁶ quando lavabam pedes meos butyro,
et petra fundebat mihi rivos olei :

BCC ⁷ Lorsque je sortais pour me rendre à la porte de la ville, et que j'établissais mon siège sur la place publique,

KJV ⁷ When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!

VULC ⁷ quando procedebam ad portam civitatis,
et in platea parabant cathedram mihi.

BCC ⁸ en me voyant, les jeunes gens se cachaient, les vieillards se levaient et se tenaient debout.

KJV ⁸ The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

VULC ⁸ Videbant me juvenes, et abscondebantur :
et senes assurgentes stabant.

BCC ⁹ Les princes retenaient leurs paroles, et mettaient leur main sur la bouche.

KJV ⁹ The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.

VULC ⁹ Principes cessabant loqui,
et digitum superponebant ori suo.

BCC ¹⁰ La voix des chefs restait muette, leur langue s'attachait à leur palais.

KJV ¹⁰ The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.

VULC ¹⁰ Vocem suam cohibebant duces,
et lingua eorum gutturi suo adhærebat.

BCC ¹¹ L'oreille qui m'entendait me proclamait heureux, l'oeil qui me voyait me rendait témoignage.

KJV ¹¹ When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:

VULC ¹¹ Auris audiens beatificabat me,
et oculus videns testimonium reddebat mihi :

BCC ¹² Car je sauvais le pauvre qui implorait du secours, et l'orphelin dénué de tout appui.

KJV ¹² Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.

VULC ¹² eo quod liberassem pauperem vociferantem,
et pupillum cui non esset adjutor.

BCC ¹³ La bénédiction de celui qui allait périr venait sur moi, je remplissais de joie le coeur de la veuve.

KJV ¹³ The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

VULC ¹³ Benedictio perituri super me veniebat,
et cor viduæ consolatus sum.

BCC ¹⁴ Je me revêtais de la justice comme d'un vêtement, mon équité était mon manteau et mon turban.

KJV ¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

VULC ¹⁴ Justitia indutus sum,
et vestivi me, sicut vestimento et diademate, judicio meo.

BCC ¹⁵ J'étais l'oeil de l'aveugle, et le pied du boiteux.

KJV ¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.

VULC ¹⁵ Oculus fui cæco, et pes claudo.

BCC ¹⁶ J'étais le père des pauvres, j'examinais avec soin la cause de l'inconnu.

KJV ¹⁶ I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.

VULC ¹⁶ Pater eram pauperum,
et causam quam nesciebam diligentissime investigabam.

BCC ¹⁷ Je brisais la mâchoire de l'injuste, et j'arrachais sa proie d'entre les dents.

KJV ¹⁷ And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.

VULC ¹⁷ Conterebam molas iniqui,
et de dentibus illius auferebam prædam.

BCC ¹⁸ Je disais : "Je mourrai dans mon nid, j'aurai des jours nombreux comme le sable.

KJV ¹⁸ Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

VULC ¹⁸ Dicebamque : In nidulo meo moriar,
et sicut palma multiplicabo dies.

BCC ¹⁹ Mes racines s'étendent vers les eaux, la rosée passe la nuit dans mon feuillage.

KJV ¹⁹ My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

VULC ¹⁹ Radix mea aperta est secus aquas,
et ros morabitur in messione mea.

BCC ²⁰ Ma gloire reverdira sans cesse, et mon arc reprendra sa vigueur dans ma main."

KJV ²⁰ My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

VULC ²⁰ Gloria mea semper innovabitur,
et arcus meus in manu mea instaurabitur.

BCC ²¹ On m'écoutait et l'on attendait, on recueillait en silence mon avis.

KJV ²¹ Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

VULC ²¹ Qui me audiebant, expectabant sententiam,
et intenti tacebant ad consilium meum.

BCC ²² Après que j'avais parlé, personne n'ajoutait rien ; ma parole coulait sur eux comme la rosée.

KJV ²² After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

VULC ²² Verbis meis addere nihil audebant,
et super illos stillabat eloquium meum.

BCC ²³ Ils m'attendaient comme on attend la pluie ; ils ouvraient la bouche comme aux ondées de printemps.

KJV ²³ And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

VULC ²³ Expectabant me sicut pluviam,
et os suum aperiebant quasi ad imbrem serotinum.

BCC ²⁴ Si je leur souriais, ils ne pouvaient le croire ; ils recueillaient avidement ce signe de faveur.

KJV ²⁴ If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

VULC ²⁴ Siquando ridebam ad eos, non credebant :
et lux vultus mei non cadebat in terram.

BCC 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.

KJV ²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

VULC ²⁵ Si voluissem ire ad eos, sedebam primus :
cumque sederem quasi rex, circumstante exercitu,
eram tamen mœrentium consolator.]