- Job Outline
- 1:1-2:13 Prologue
- 1:1-5 Intro
- 1:6-12 The Accusation in Heaven
- 1:13-22 First Round - Job Loses His Family and Possessions
- 2:1-10 Second Round - Job Loses His Health
- 2:11-13 The three 'comforters' arrive
- 3:1-27:23 Dialogues
- 3:1-26 Job complains
3:1-10 Job curses the day of His birth
- 3:11-19 Job wishes he died at birth
- 3:20-26 Job wonders why he was born
- 4:1-14:22 First Round
- 4:1-5:27 Eliphaz Responds
- 4:1-21 The Innocent Are Not Punished
- 5:1-27 Ask God and He Will Forgive
- 6:1-7:21 Job Replies
- 6:1-30 I'm Suffering and My 'friends' are not Helping
- 7:1-21 I complain to God "Why are You Doing This?"
- 8:1-22 Bildad Responds: God Always Judges Right
- 9:1-10:22 Job Replies
- 9:1-35 I'm Innocent, but How Can I Resist God?
- 10:1-22 I ask God "Why are You Doing This?"
- 11:1-20 Zophar Responds: You Don't Understand God, Therefore, Repent
- 12:1-14:22 Job Replies
- 12:1-25 God is Sovereign, He has done this
- 13:1-12 You think you're defending God, but you are wrong
- 13:13-22 I still assert my innocence
- 13:23-28 Why am I being punished?
- 14:1-22 Life is suffering, but I hold on to hope
- 15:1-21:34 Second Round
- 15:1-35 Eliphaz Responds
- 15:1-16 You Are Not Wise And You Sin
- 15:17-35 The Wicked Are Always Punished
- 16:1-17:16 Job Replies
- 16:1-5 You Are Horrible Comforters
- 16:6-17 God Is Fiercely Punishing Me, But I'm Innocent
- 16:18-17:2 My Advocate Will Prove Me True
- 17:3-16 They Have No Wisdom
- 18:1-21 Bildad Responds: The Wicked Are Punished
- 19:1-29 Job Replies: I Have Hope
- 20:1-29 Zophar Responds: Job is Arrogant to Deny That The Wicked are Always Punished
- 21:1-34 Job Replies: I Deny That the Wicked Are Always Punished
- 22:1-27:23 Third Round
- 22:1-30 Eliphaz Responds: You are Punished b/c You are Wicked, Repent!
- 23:1-24:25 Job Replies
- 23:1-17 I Want to Talk to God, but He is Inaccessible
- 24:1-25 Why Does God Not Judge? But God Does Judge
- 25:1-6 Bildad Responds: How Can Man Be Righteous Before an Awesome God?
- 26:1-27:23 Job Replies
- 26:1-14 You Suck as 'friends' but God is Great
- 27:1-23 I will Never Deny my Integrity, Though I've Been Wronged
- 28:1-28 Interlude: Where is wisdom found?
- 28:1-14
- 28:15-19
- 28:20-28
- 29:1-42:6 Monologues
- 29:1-31:40 Job's Monologue
- 29:1-25 I Long for the Past When God Protected and Blessed Me
- 30:1-31 But Now I'm Suffering and God Does Not Help
- 31:1-40 I Am Innocent, But I Can't Get a Hearing for Justice
- 32:1-37:24 Elihu's Monologue
- 32:1-5 Intro - Elihu is Angry at Their Answers
- 32:6-22 I Wanted to Defer to the Wisdom of Age, But I'm Compelled to Speak
- 33:1-33 Don't Complain about God's Injustice, but Repent
- 34:1-37 God Cannot Be Wrong, So Job is Wrong
- 35:1-16 God is Not Going to Listen to Job's Accusations
- 36:1-25 God is Judging You for Your Wickedness
- 36:26-37:24 God is Awesome and You Can't Understand His Ways
- 38:1-42:6 God's Monologue
- 38:1-39:30 God Questions Job
- 38:1-3 God Speaks! "I will question you"
- 38:4-18 "You don't understand creation"
- 38:19-38 "You don't understand weather"
- 38:39-39:30 "You don't understand animals"
- 40:1-5 Job Answers God: "I am unworthy"
- 40:6-41:34 God Questions Job
- 40:6-14 "Can you do justice better?"
- 40:15-24 "Can you control Behemoth?"
- 41:1-34 "Can you control Leviathan?"
- 42:1-6 Job Replies "I will shut up"
- 42:7-16 Epilogue
- 42:7-9 God Rebukes Job's Friends
- 42:10-17 Job is Blessed Twice as much as Before His Suffering