Ostervald (French) OST
New International Version NIV
1 Job prit la parole, et dit:
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Then Job replied:
2 Comme tu as aidé celui qui était sans force! Comme tu as secouru le bras sans vigueur!
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“How you have helped the powerless! How you have saved the arm that is feeble!
3 Comme tu as bien conseillé l'homme sans raison, et fait paraître l'abondance de ta sagesse!
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What advice you have offered to one without wisdom! And what great insight you have displayed!
4 A qui as-tu adressé des discours? Et de qui est l'esprit qui est sorti de toi?
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Who has helped you utter these words? And whose spirit spoke from your mouth?
5 Les ombres tremblent au-dessous des eaux et de leurs habitants.
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“The dead are in deep anguish, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.
6 Le Sépulcre est à nu devant lui, et l'abîme est sans voile.
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The realm of the dead is naked before God; Destruction lies uncovered.
7 Il étend le septentrion sur le vide, il suspend la terre sur le néant.
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He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.
8 Il renferme les eaux dans ses nuages, et la nuée n'éclate pas sous leur poids.
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He wraps up the waters in his clouds, yet the clouds do not burst under their weight.
9 Il couvre la face de son trône, il déploie au-dessus sa nuée.
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He covers the face of the full moon, spreading his clouds over it.
10 Il décrit un cercle sur les eaux, au point où la lumière confine avec les ténèbres.
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He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters for a boundary between light and darkness.
11 Les colonnes des cieux sont ébranlées, et s'étonnent à sa menace.
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The pillars of the heavens quake, aghast at his rebuke.
12 Par sa force, il soulève la mer; et par son habileté, il écrase les plus puissants rebelles.
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By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.
13 Son souffle rend le ciel pur; sa main perce le dragon fugitif.
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By his breath the skies became fair; his hand pierced the gliding serpent.
14 Ce ne sont là que les bords de ses voies; qu'il est faible le bruit qu'en saisit notre oreille! Et qui pourra entendre le tonnerre de sa puissance?
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And these are but the outer fringe of his works; how faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?”
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