Jb 18 (Annotée Neuchâtel)

¹ Bildad de Suach prit la parole et dit :
² Jusqu'à quand ferez-vous la chasse aux mots ? Soyez raisonnables, ensuite nous parlerons.
³ Pourquoi nous considère-t-on comme des bêtes ? Pourquoi sommes-nous stupides, à vos yeux ?
⁴ Il se déchire lui-même dans sa colère ! Est-ce qu'à cause de toi la terre sera abandonnée, Et le rocher transporté hors de sa place ?
⁵ Oui, la lumière des méchants s'éteindra, La flamme de son feu ne brillera pas.
⁶ La lumière s'est obscurcie dans sa tente, Et sa lampe s'éteindra au-dessus de lui.
⁷ Son allure si ferme devient embarrassée, Son propre conseil le fait tomber.
⁸ Car ses pieds s'engagent dans un filet, Il marche sur des rets.
⁹ Le piège le prend au talon, Le filet s'empare de lui.
¹⁰ Une corde est cachée pour lui dans la terre, Une trappe sur le sentier.
¹¹ De toutes parts des terreurs l'épouvantent Et le poursuivent pas à pas.
¹² Ses forces sont détruites par la faim, Et la ruine veille à son côté !
¹³ Sa chair est dévorée morceau après morceau, Ses membres sont dévorés par le premier-né de la mort.
¹⁴ Il est arraché de sa tente en laquelle il se confiait, Et traîné vers le roi des épouvantements.
¹⁵ Dans sa tente habiteront d'autres que les siens, Du soufre sera semé sur sa demeure.
¹⁶ En bas, ses racines se dessèchent ; En haut, ses branches se fanent.
¹⁷ Sa mémoire a disparu de la terre, On ne parle plus de lui nulle part ;
¹⁸ On le repousse de la lumière dans les ténèbres, On l'expulse loin du monde.
¹⁹ Il n'a, parmi son peuple, ni rejeton, ni descendant, Ni survivant dans ses campements.
²⁰ Son jour remplit d'effroi les habitants de l'occident Et fait frissonner ceux de l'orient.
²¹ Il n'en va pas autrement aux demeures de l'impie, Au séjour de celui 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.