Chapter Outline for Job

  1. Job's Holiness; Satan's First Test: Loss of His Children and Goods
  2. Job's Second Test: Job Loses His Health
  3. Job's Lament
  4. Eliphaz Reproves Job
  5. Eliphaz Shows that God Is Just
  6. Job's Reproves His Friends of Their Unkindness
  7. Job Declares His Life Seems Futile
  8. Bildad Shows God's Justice to the Good
  9. Job Acknowledges God's Justice
  10. Job Complains to God Craves a Little Ease Before Death
  11. Zophar Rebukes Job for Justifying Himself; God's Wisdom Is Unsearchable
  12. Job Maintains Himself against His Friends; Acknowledges God's Omnipotence
  13. Job Reproves His Friends for Partiality Professes Confidence in God's Purpose
  14. Job Asks God for Favor Because of the Shortness of Life
  15. Eliphaz Reproves Job for Justifying Himself; Declares the Wickedness of Men
  16. Job Reproves His Friends for Their Unmerciful Outlook; Maintains His Innocence
  17. Job Appeals from Men to God
  18. Bildad Reproves Job for Presumption and Impatience
  19. Job Feels Insulted Craves Pity Believes the Resurrection
  20. Zophar Declares the Triumph of the Wicked Is Brief
  21. Job Says God Will Deal with the Wicked
  22. Eliphaz Accuses and Exhorts Job to Repentance
  23. Job Longs to Appear before God
  24. Wickedness is Often Unpunished but there is a Secret Judgment for the Wicked
  25. Bildad Says that Man Cannot be Justified before God
  26. Job Declares the Greatness of God
  27. Job Affirms His Own Righteousness; The wicked Will be Cursed
  28. Wisdom Is Harder to Obtain than Earth's Treasures
  29. Job Bemoans His Former Prosperity
  30. Job's Present State Is Humiliating
  31. Job Asserts His Integrity
  32. Elihu Rebukes Job and His Three Friends
  33. Elihu Declares God Calls Man to Repentance by Visions and Afflictions
  34. Elihu Accuses Job for Charging God with Injustice
  35. Many Cry in Affliction But Are Not Heard for Lack of Faith
  36. Elihu Shows How Job's Sins Hinder God's Blessings
  37. Elihu Says God is to be Feared Because of His Great Works
  38. God Speaks Convinces Job of Ignorance
  39. God Speaks of His Creation
  40. Job Humbles Himself to God
  41. God's Power Shown in Creatures
  42. Job Confesses; God Makes His Friends Submit; God Blesses Job