Outline of the Book of Job

Job
  1. Job is tested  (1:1-2:13)
    1. Prologue  (1:1-5)
    2. Job's first test  (1:6-22)
    3. Job's second test  (2:1-10)
    4. Job's three friends  (2:11-13)
  2. Three friends answer Job  (3:1-31:40)
    1. First round of discussion  (3:1-14:22)
      1. Job speaks  (3:1-26)
      2. Eliphaz  (4:1-5:27)
      3. Job  (6:1-7:21)
      4. Bildad  (8:1-22)
      5. Job  (9:1-10:22)
      6. Zophar  (11:1-20)
      7. Job  (12:1-14:22)
    2. Second round of discussion  (15:1-21:34)
      1. Eliphaz  (15:1-35)
      2. Job  (16:1-17:16)
      3. Bildad  (18:1-21)
      4. Job  (19:1-29)
      5. Zophar  (20:1-29)
      6. Job  (21:1-34)
    3. Third round of discussion  (22:1-31:40)
      1. Eliphaz  (22:1-30)
      2. Job  (23:1-24:25)
      3. Bildad  (25:1-6)
      4. Job  (26:1-31:40)
  3. A young man answers Job  (32:1-37:24)
    1. Elihu  (32:1-37:24)
  4. God answers Job  (38:1-41:34)
    1. The Lord speaks  (38:1-41:34)
  5. Job is restored  (42:1-17)
    1. Job  (42:1-6)
    2. Epilogue  (42:7-17)
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Job
  1. Prologue  (1:1-2:8)
    1. The character of Job  (1:1)
    2. The family and prosperity of Job  (1:2-4)
    3. The piety of Job and his household  (1:5)
    4. Satan's theory: Job was good because prosperous  (1:6-12)
    5. In the sieve of Satan: mystery of God's permissive will  (1:13-22)
    6. Again in Satan's sieve: family, property, health gone  (2:1-8)
  2. Job and his wife  (2:9-10)
  3. Job and his three friends: scene, the ash heap outside an oriental village  (2:11-31:40)
    1. The friends arrive  (2:11-13)
    2. Job's first discourse: he tells his misery and despair  (3:1-26)
    3. First discourse of Eliphaz  (4:1-5:27)
    4. Job's answer to Eliphaz: a touching appeal for pity  (6:1-7:21)
    5. First discourse of Bildad: he thinks Job a hypocrite  (8:1-22)
    6. Job answers Bildad: he is a sinner, and knows not how to be justified--but not a hypocrite  (9:1-10:22)
    7. Zophar's first discourse: he thinks Job both hypocrite and liar  (11:1-20)
    8. Job answers the three: he is familiar with their platitudes  (12:1-14:22)
    9. Second discourse of Eliphaz: again rests upon superior experience and tradition  (15:1-35)
    10. Job's fourth answer: Eliphaz has but heaped up words  (16:1-17:16)
    11. Bildad's second discourse: a string of oriental proverbs  (18:1-21)
    12. Job's fifth answer: his sublime faith  (19:1-29)
    13. Zophar's second discourse: tradition and proverb  (20:1-29)
    14. Job's sixth answer: the prosperity of the wicked refutes the view that he is afflicted because a secret sinner  (21:1-34)
    15. Eliphaz' third discourse: the old theory--Job has sinned  (22:1-30)
    16. Job's seventh answer: he longs for God  (23:1-24:25)
    17. Bildad's third discourse: sententious sayings  (25:1-6)
    18. Job's eighth answer: Bildad's view leads to despair. Job's faith in God  (26:1-31:40)
  4. Job and Elihu  (32:1-37:24)
    1. Elihu's discourse  (32:2-37:24)
  5. Jehovah and Job  (38:1-41:34)
  6. Job's self-judgment  (42:1-6)
  7. Epilogue: Job vindicated and honored  (42:7-17)
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