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Book of Job Walkthrough

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.