Job 42:1-7

1 Job répondit à l'Eternel et dit:

2 Je reconnais que tu peux tout, Et que rien ne s'oppose à tes pensées.

3 Quel est celui qui a la folie d'obscurcir mes desseins? -Oui, j'ai parlé, sans les comprendre, De merveilles qui me dépassent et que je ne conçois pas.

4 Ecoute-moi, et je parlerai; Je t'interrogerai, et tu m'instruiras.

5 Mon oreille avait entendu parler de toi; Mais maintenant mon oeil t'a vu.

6 C'est pourquoi je me condamne et je me repens Sur la poussière et sur la cendre.

7 Après que l'Eternel eut adressé ces paroles à Job, il dit à Eliphaz de Théman: Ma colère est enflammée contre toi et contre tes deux amis, parce que vous n'avez pas parlé de moi avec droiture comme l'a fait mon serviteur Job.

Job 42:1-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 42

This chapter contains Job's answer to the last speech of the Lord's, in which he acknowledges his omnipotence, and his certain performance of his purposes and pleasure; owns his own folly and ignorance, and confesses his sins; for which he abhorred himself, and of which he repented, Job 42:1-6; it also gives an account of the Lord's decision of the controversy between Job and his friends, blaming them and commending him above them; and ordered them to take sacrifices and go to Job and offer them, who should pray for them and be accepted, which was done, Job 42:7-9; and it closes with a relation of the great prosperity Job was restored unto, in which he lived and died, Job 42:10-17.