job outline

1. The Dilemma of Job (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)