Job 1:
While Job is faithful, the satan attacked Job with the permissive will of YHWH.
Job 2:
The satan again attacks Job with the permissive will of YHWH, but Job remains faithful.
Job 3:
By eloquent prose, Job curses the day he was born.
Job 4:
Job’s friend Eliphaz informs Job that the innocent doesn’t suffer.
Job 5:
Job’s friend makes it clear that God is just.
Job 6:
Job refutes his friend and bears his suffering and distress with no help.
Job 7:
Job affirms the brevity of life and insignificance of humanity.
Job 8:
Job’s friend Bildad advises Job about the rewards of the Godly.
Job 9:
Job recognizes the rightful place of YHWH the Creator and his place as subject to His will.
Job 10:
Job asks for relief and acquittal in the midst of his affliction and suffering.
Job 11:
Job’s friend Zophar accuses Job of sin and appeals to him to repent.
Job 12:
Job responds to his friend’s accusations and proclaims God’s wisdom.
Job 13:
Job continues to hope as he accuses his friends and argues his case with God.
Job 14:
Job makes clear that while humans live and die, death is certain and there is life after death.
Job 15:
Eliphaz declared that Job is guilty before God and describes the plight of the wicked.
Job 16:
Job calls his friends miserable comforters and speaks of his mistreatment from God.
Job 17:
Job further laments and prepares for death.
Job 18:
Job’s friend Bildad further informs Job of his wickedness to perish without descendants.
Job 19:
Job’s outcry against his friend’s torture, God’s injustice, and abandonment from his family.
Job 20:
Job’s friend Zophar again speaks about the destruction that awaits the wicked.
Job 21:
Job reasons with his friends and observes that wicked prospers until punished.
Job 22:
Job’s friend acknowledges God but speaks an imprecatory prayer and urges Job to repent.
Job 23:
Job is terrified of God’s presence but justifies his innocence before his friend Eliphaz.
Job 24:
Job describes social injustices and their due punishment.
Job 25:
Job’s friend Bildad speaks again to highlight the inferiority of man.
Job 26:
Job reasons with Bildad and acknowledges God’s power.
Job 27:
Job declared he is innocent and elaborates on the outcome of the wicked.
Job 28:
Wisdom is from God and its value is far above precious stones.
Job 29:
Job recalls his life of kindness and respect without hardship and suffering.
Job 30:
Job recounts his hope while before his mockers and desperate condition.
Job 31:
Job declares his innocence from a range of specific sinful behaviors.
Job 32:
In anger, Elihu addresses Job and his friends to accuse them of foolishness and incompetence.
Job 33:
Elihu proclaims his innocence as he counsels Job about the need for humanity’s redemption.
Job 34:
Elihu reviews Job’s view of injustice and proclaims God’s justice while declaring Job unwise.
Job 35:
Elihu condemns Job while calling attention to God’s justice.
Job 36:
Elihu insists on God’s discipline as YHWH is all-powerful, awesome, and just.
Job 37:
Elihu concludes by challenging Job to pay attention and urges him to revere God.
Job 38:
YHWH God appears before Job from the whirlwind to ask many questions of surpassing depth.
Job 39:
YHWH God continues to ask questions about the properties and attributes of created animals.
Job 40:
Job humbles himself before YHWH as he is further challenged by God about His creation.
Job 41:
YHWH God speaks of the leviathan to make clear all of heaven and earth belong to God.
Job 42:
Job repents and his health and prosperity are restored by YHWH God, and he intercedes for his friends to restore them as well.
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