Jb 20 (Catholique Crampon)

¹ Alors Sophar de Naama prit la parole et dit :
² C'est pourquoi mes pensées me suggèrent une réponse, et, à cause de mon agitation, j'ai hâte de la donner,
³ J'ai entendu des reproches qui m'outragent ; dans mon intelligence, mon esprit trouvera la réplique.
⁴ Sais-tu bien que, de tout temps, depuis que l'homme a été placé sur la terre,
⁵ le triomphe des méchants a été court, et la joie de l'impie d'un moment ?
⁶ Quand il porterait son orgueil jusqu'au ciel, et que sa tête toucherait aux nues,
⁷ comme une ordure, il périt toujours ; ceux qui le voyaient disent : "Où est-il ?"
⁸ Il s'envole comme un songe, et on ne le trouve plus ; il s'efface comme une vision de la nuit.
⁹ L'oeil qui le voyait ne le découvre plus ; sa demeure ne l'apercevra plus.
¹⁰ Ses enfants imploreront les pauvres, de ses propres mains il restituera ses rapines.
¹¹ Ses os étaient pleins de ses iniquités cachées ; elles dormiront avec lui dans la poussière.
¹² Parce que le mal a été doux à sa bouche, qu'il l'a caché sous sa langue,
¹³ qu'il l'a savouré sans l'abandonner, et l'a retenu au milieu de son palais :
¹⁴ sa nourriture tournera en poison dans ses entrailles, elle deviendra dans son sein le venin de l'aspic.
¹⁵ Il a englouti des richesses, il les vomira ; Dieu les retirera de son ventre.
¹⁶ Il a sucé le venin de l'aspic, la langue de la vipère le tuera.
¹⁷ Il ne verra jamais couler les fleuves, les torrents de miel et de lait.
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.
¹⁹ Car il a opprimé et délaissé les pauvres, il a saccagé leur maison, et ne l'a point rétablie :
²⁰ son avidité n'a pu être rassasiée, il n'emportera pas ce qu'il a de plus cher.
²¹ Rien n'échappait à sa voracité ; aussi son bonheur ne subsistera pas.
²² Au sein de l'abondance, il tombe dans la disette ; tous les coups du malheur viennent sur lui.
²³ Voici pour lui remplir le ventre : Dieu enverra sur lui le feu de sa colère, elle pleuvra sur lui jusqu'en ses entrailles.
²⁴ S'il échappe aux armes de fer, l'arc d'airain le transperce.
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.
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.
²⁷ Les cieux révéleront son iniquité, et la terre s'élèvera contre lui.
²⁸ L'abondance de sa maison sera dispersée, elle disparaîtra au jour de la colère.
²⁹ Telle est la part que Dieu réserve au méchant, et l'héritage que lui destine Dieu.

Jb 20 (King James)

¹ Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,
² Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
³ I have heard the check of my reproach, and the spirit of my understanding causeth me to answer.
⁴ Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,
⁵ That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
⁶ Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;
⁷ Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
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.
⁹ The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
¹⁰ His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.
¹¹ His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.
¹² Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;
¹³ Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:
¹⁴ Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
¹⁵ He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
¹⁶ He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
¹⁷ He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter.
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.
¹⁹ Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
²⁰ Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired.
²¹ There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods.
²² In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
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.
²⁴ He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through.
²⁵ It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
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.
²⁷ The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.
²⁸ The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.
²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

Jb 20 (Vulgate)

¹ Respondens autem Sophar Naamathites, dixit :
² [Idcirco cogitationes meæ variæ succedunt sibi, et mens in diversa rapitur.
³ Doctrinam qua me arguis audiam, et spiritus intelligentiæ meæ respondebit mihi.
⁴ Hoc scio a principio, ex quo positus est homo super terram,
⁵ quod laus impiorum brevis sit, et gaudium hypocritæ ad instar puncti.
⁶ Si ascenderit usque ad cælum superbia ejus, et caput ejus nubes tetigerit,
⁷ quasi sterquilinium in fine perdetur, et qui eum viderant, dicent : Ubi est ?
⁸ Velut somnium avolans non invenietur : transiet sicut visio nocturna.
⁹ Oculus qui eum viderat non videbit, neque ultra intuebitur eum locus suus.
¹⁰ Filii ejus atterentur egestate, et manus illius reddent ei dolorem suum.
¹¹ Ossa ejus implebuntur vitiis adolescentiæ ejus, et cum eo in pulvere dormient.
¹² Cum enim dulce fuerit in ore ejus malum, abscondet illud sub lingua sua.
¹³ Parcet illi, et non derelinquet illud, et celabit in gutture suo.
¹⁴ Panis ejus in utero illius vertetur in fel aspidum intrinsecus.
¹⁵ Divitias quas devoravit evomet, et de ventre illius extrahet eas Deus.
¹⁶ Caput aspidum suget, et occidet eum lingua viperæ.
¹⁷ (Non videat rivulos fluminis, torrentes mellis et butyri.)
¹⁸ Luet quæ fecit omnia, nec tamen consumetur : juxta multitudinem adinventionum suarum, sic et sustinebit.
¹⁹ Quoniam confringens nudavit pauperes : domum rapuit, et non ædificavit eam.
²⁰ Nec est satiatus venter ejus : et cum habuerit quæ concupierat, possidere non poterit.
²¹ Non remansit de cibo ejus, et propterea nihil permanebit de bonis ejus.
²² Cum satiatus fuerit, arctabitur : æstuabit, et omnis dolor irruet super eum.
²³ Utinam impleatur venter ejus, ut emittat in eum iram furoris sui, et pluat super illum bellum suum.
²⁴ Fugiet arma ferrea, et irruet in arcum æreum.
²⁵ Eductus, et egrediens de vagina sua, et fulgurans in amaritudine sua : vadent et venient super eum horribiles.
²⁶ Omnes tenebræ absconditæ sunt in occultis ejus ; devorabit eum ignis qui non succenditur : affligetur relictus in tabernaculo suo.
²⁷ Revelabunt cæli iniquitatem ejus, et terra consurget adversus eum.
²⁸ Apertum erit germen domus illius : detrahetur in die furoris Dei.
²⁹ Hæc est pars hominis impii a Deo, et hæreditas verborum ejus a Domino.]