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Click Here for the Bible Project’s Guide to Job.

1. Job’s Dilemma ( 1:1⁠–⁠2:13 )

a. Job’s Character and Wealth ( 1:1⁠–⁠1:5 )
b. Satan’s First Attack ( 1:6⁠–⁠22 )
i.   Satan in the Throne Room ( 1:6⁠–⁠12 )
ii.  Job Loses His Children and Possessions ( 1:13⁠–⁠22 )
c. Satan’s Second Attack ( 2:1⁠–⁠10 )
i.   Satan Back in the Throne Room ( 2:1⁠–⁠6 )
ii.  Job Loses His Health ( 2:7⁠–⁠10 )
d. Job’s Three Friends ( 2:11⁠–⁠13 )
2. The Debates of Job ( 3:1⁠–⁠37:24 )
a. Job’s Opening Lament ( 3:1⁠–⁠26 )

b. The First Cycle of Debate ( 4:1⁠–⁠14:22 )
i.   Eliphaz’s First Speech ( 4:1⁠–⁠7:21 )

1. The Innocent Prosper ( 4:1⁠–⁠21 )
2. God Blesses those Who Seek Him ( 5:1⁠–⁠27 )
3. Job Replies to Eliphaz ( 6:1⁠–⁠7:21 )
a. My Complaint is Just ( 6:1⁠–⁠30 )
b. Life Seems Futile ( 7:1⁠–⁠21 )
ii.  Bildad’s First Speech ( 8:1⁠–⁠10:22 )

1. Job Should Repent ( 8:1⁠–⁠22 )
2. Job Replies to Bildad ( 9:1⁠–⁠10:22 )
a. How Can I Contend with God? ( 9:1⁠–⁠35 )
b. Job’s Plea to God ( 10:1⁠–⁠22 )
iii. Zophar’s First Speech ( 11:1⁠–⁠14:22 )

1. Zophar Rebukes Job ( 11:1⁠–⁠20 )
2. Job Replies to Zophar ( 12:1⁠–⁠14:22 )
a. Job presents His Case ( 12:1⁠–⁠25 )
b. Job Prepares His Case ( 13:1⁠–⁠28 )
c. Job Laments the Finality of Death ( 14:1⁠–⁠22 )
c. The Second Cycle of Debates ( 15:1⁠–⁠21:34 )
i.   Eliphaz’s Second Speech ( 15:1⁠–⁠17:16 )

1. Job Does Not Fear God ( 15:1⁠–⁠35 )
2. Job Replies to Eliphaz ( 16:1⁠–⁠17:16 )
a. Job Decries His Comforters ( 16:1⁠–⁠22 )
b. Job Prepares for Death ( 17:1⁠–⁠16 )
ii.  Bildad’s Second Speech ( 18:1⁠–⁠19:29 )

1. God Punishes the Wicked ( 18:1⁠–⁠21 )
2. Job Replies to Bildad ( 19:1⁠–⁠29 )
iii. Zophar’s Second Speech ( 20:1⁠–⁠21:34 )

1. Destruction Awaits the Wicked ( 20:1⁠–⁠29 )
2. Job Replies to Zophar ( 21:1⁠–⁠34 )
d. The Third Cycle of Debates ( 22:1⁠–⁠26:14 )

i.   Eliphaz’s Third Speech ( 22:1⁠–⁠24:25 )
1. Can a Man Be of Use to God? ( 22:1⁠–⁠30 )
2. Job Replies to Eliphaz ( 23:1⁠–⁠24:25 )
a. Job Longs for God ( 23:1⁠–⁠17 )
b. Judgment for the Wicked ( 24:1⁠–⁠25 )
ii.  Bildad’s Third Speech ( 25:1⁠–⁠26:14 )
1. Man Cannot Be Righteous ( 25:1⁠–⁠6 )
2. Job Replies to Bildad ( 26:1⁠–⁠14 )
e. The Final Defense of Job ( 27:1⁠–⁠31:40 )

i.   Job’s First Monologue ( 27:1⁠–⁠28:28 )
ii.  Job’s Second Monologue ( 29:1⁠–⁠31:40 )
f. The Speeches of Elihu ( 32:1⁠–⁠37:24 )

i.   Elihu Rebukes Job’s Friends ( 32:1⁠–⁠22 )
ii.  Elihu Rebukes Job ( 33:1⁠–⁠33 )
iii. Elihu Confirms God’s Justice ( 34:1⁠–⁠37 )
iv. Elihu Recalls God’s Justice ( 35:1⁠–⁠16 )
v.  Elihu Describes God’s Power ( 36:1⁠–⁠33 )
vi. Elihu Proclaims God’s Majesty ( 37:1⁠–⁠24 )
3. The Divine Discourses ( 38:1⁠–⁠42:17 )


a. God’s First Challenge to Job ( 38:1⁠–⁠40:2 )
b. Job’s First Reply to God ( 40:3⁠–⁠5 )
c. God’s Second Challenge to Job ( 40:6⁠–⁠41:34 )
d. Job’s Second Reply to God ( 42:1⁠–⁠6 )
e. The LORD Rebukes Job’s Friends ( 42:7⁠–⁠9 )
f. The LORD Blesses Job ( 42:10⁠–⁠17 )