Job
The Book of Job is named from its central character. The author is uncertain. The date of composition is widely disputed. The purpose of the Book of Job shows the inadequacy of human reason to account for the suffering of the innocent. There is a mystery of divine freedom which does not contradict God’s goodness or sovereignty but remains elusive to man, and resigns to an attitude of trust and dependence on a good God whose working man cannot fathom.
Job 1
1:1-5 The riches and piety of Job
1:6-12 Satan obtains permission to tempt Job
1:13-22 Job is afflicted
Job 2
2:1-8 Satan obtains permission to tempt Job
2:9-10 Job and his wife
2:11-13 Job and his friends
Job 3
3:1-26 Job bewails his birth
Job 4
4:1-21 Eliphaz rebukes Job
Job 5
5:1-27 Eliphaz rebukes Job (continued)
Job 6
6:1-13 Job justifies his complaints
6:14-30 Job reproaches his friends
Job 7
7:1-21 Job remonstrates with God
Job 8
8:1-22 Bildad affirms God’s justice
Job 9
9:1-35 Job acknowledges God’s justice
Job 10
10:1-22 Job bewails his condition
Job 11
11:1-20 Zophar reproves Job
Job 12
12:1-6 Job answers his friends
12:7-25 Job acknowledges God’s omnipotence
Job 13
13:1-28 Job defends his integrity
Job 14
14:1-22 Job speaks of life’s woes
Job 15
15:1-35 Eliphaz reproves Job
Job 16
16:1-22 Job complains of God’s dealings
Job 17
17:1-16 Job appeals to God
Job 18
18:1-21 Bildad speaks of the plight of the wicked
Job 19
19:1-20 Job speaks of his friends’ cruelty
19:21-24 Job seeks pity
19:25-29 Job states his faith
Job 20
20:1-29 Zophar speaks of the wicked
Job 21
21:1-34 Job bemoans the prosperity of the wicked
Job 22
22:1-20 Eliphaz accuses Job of sin
22:21-30 Job implored to repent
Job 23
23:1-7 Job desires to plead before God
23:8-17 God knows men’s ways
Job 24
24:1-16 Job complains of God’s indifference to wicked
24:17-25 Secret judgment for the wicked
Job 25
25:1-6 How can man be justified with God?
Job 26
26:1-14 Job reproves Bildad, praises God
Job 27
27:1-7 Job’s truthfulness
27:8-23 The hypocrite’s hopelessness
Job 28
28:1-28 Wisdom is God’s gift
Job 29
29:1-25 Job speaks of past wealth
Job 30
30:1-31 Job is diseased and abhorred
Job 31
31:1-40 Job speaks of his integrity
Job 32
32:1-5 Elihu appears
32:6-10 Wisdom comes not from age
32:11-22 Elihu reproves the “comforters”
Job 33
33:1-13 Elihu reasons with Job
33:14-33 God calls men to repent
Job 34
34:1-9 Elihu speaks of Job’s logic
34:10-30 God cannot be unjust
34:31-37 Man must give up pride
Job 35
35:1-16 Man is not God
Job 36
36:1-15 God is just
36:16-33 Results of Job’s sins
Job 37
37:1-24 God’s works and wisdom
Job 38
38:1-3 God challenges Job
38:4-41 God shows Job’s ignorance
Job 39
39:1-30 God continues his challenge
Job 40
40:1-5 Job is humbled
40:6-24 God’s power and wisdom
Job 41
41:1-34 God’s power shown in the leviathan
Job 42
42:1-6 Job submits to God
42:7-17 God blesses Job
