35 The Book of Job

The Book of Job

JOB.

INTRODUCTORY NARRATIVE.
Job 1:1-22;Job 2:1-13.

1. Job Is Introduced. Job 1:1-5.
2. Job Is Accused by Satan. Job 1:6-12.
3. The First Issue Decided. Job 1:13-22.
4. Satan Shifts His Ground. Job 2:1-6.
5. The Second Result. Job 2:7-10.
6. Job’s Three Friends Come to Comfort Him. Job 2:11-13.


PART FIRST: JOB’S DISCUSSIONS WITH THREE FRIENDS.
Job 3:1-31:40.

I. JOB’S COMPLAINT. Job 3:1-26.
1. He Curses His Birth Day. Job 3:1-10.
2. Laments That He Died Not in Infancy. Job 3:11-16.
3. He Longs for Death. Job 3:20-26.

II. THE FIRST SPEECH OF ELIPHAZ. Job 4:1-21;Job 5:1-27.
1. His Opinion as to the Cause of Job’s Affliction. Job 4:1-9.
2. He Argues from the Justice of God. Job 4:12-16.
3. He Cites the Calamities That Befall the Wicked. Job 5:3-7.
4. Advises Job to "Seek unto God". Job 5:8;Job 5:17-27.

III. JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ. Job 6:1-30;Job 7:1-21.
1. Continues His Lamentation. Job 6:1-10.
2. Complains of disappointment in His Friends. Job 6:14-24.
3. Describes His Pain and Want of Rest. Job 6:4-10;Job 6:15-16.

IV. FIRST SPEECH OF BILDAD. Job 8:1-22.
1. His Children Had Perished for Their Sins, and He Was Suffering
for His. Job 8:1-7.
2. God Destroys the Wicked, but Delivers the Righteous.
Job 8:8-14;Job 8:20-22.

V. JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD. Job 9:1-35;Job 10:1-22.
1. He Exalts God. Job 9:1-12.
2. Denies that God Executes Justice Fully in This World.
Job 9:22-24;Job 10:1-3.
3. Laments Again His Birth, and Draws Another Picture of Death.
Job 9:18-22.

VI. FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR. Job 11:1-20.
1. Job’s Suffering Less Than He Deserves. Job 11:1-6.
2. Repentance Would Bring Back Prosperity. Job 11:14-17.

VII. JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR. Job 12:1-25;Job 13:1-28;Job 14:1-22.
1. He Rebukes Their Assumption of Superiority. Job 12:1-4.
2. Refutes Their Reasoning by Reference to Prosperity of the
Wicked. Job 12:6-10.
3. Rebukes Them for False Reasoning. Job 13:4-13.
4. He Trusts the Question of a Resurrection. Job 14:1-13.

VIII-XVII. TWO MORE ROUNDS OF SPEECHES. Job 15:1-35;Job 16:1-22;
Job 17:1-16;Job 18:1-21;Job 19:1-29;Job 20:1-29;Job 21:1-34;
Job 22:1-30;Job 23:1-17;Job 24:1-25;Job 25:1-6;Job 26:1-14;
Job 27:1-23;Job 28:1-28;Job 29:1-25;Job 30:1-31;Job 31:1-40.
1. Job’s Last Speech Very Long. Job 15:1-35;Job 16:1-22;Job 17:1-16;
Job 18:1-21;Job 19:1-29;Job 20:1-29;Job 21:1-34;Job 22:1-30;
Job 23:1-17;Job 24:1-25;Job 25:1-6;Job 26:1-14;Job 27:1-23;
Job 28:1-28;Job 29:1-25;Job 30:1-31;Job 31:1-40.
2. Argument on Both Sides Unchanged.
3. Job Elaborates His Argument from the Occasional Prosperity of
Wicked Men. Job 21:1-15.
4. He Declares His Innocence of Common Sins. Job 31:1-40.


PART SECOND: THE SPEECH OF ELIHU.
Job 32:1-22;Job 33:1-33;Job 34:1-37;
Job 35:1-16;Job 36:1-33;Job 37:1-24.

1. He Is Introduced. Job 32:1-5.
2. He Gives His Reason for Keeping Silent, and for Now Speaking.
Job 32:6-20.
3. His Position as to the Question at Issue. Job 33:8-13.


PART THIRD: GOD SPEAKS FROM A WHIRLWIND.
Job 38:1-41;Job 39:1-30;Job 40:1-24;Job 41:1-34;Job 42:1-6.

I. THE INFINITE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE KNOWLEDGE AND POWER OF GOD, AND
THOSE OF MAN. Job 38:1-41;Job 39:1-30.

II. JOB HUMBLES HIMSELF, AND GOD PROCEEDS. Job 40:1-24;Job 41:1-34;Job 42:1-6.


THE SEQUEL, OR CONCLUDING NARRATIVE.
Job 42:7-17.

I. GOD’S DECISION OF THE QUESTION DISCUSSED. Job 42:7-9.

II. JOB’S RESTORATION. Job 42:10-17.