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Job
I. |Introduction—1:1-2:10A. |Job the man—1:1-5B. |A council held in heaven concerning Job—1:6-12aC. |Satan attacking Job, and Job suffering trials in the matter of his possessions and children—1:12b-22D. |A council held again in heaven concerning Job—2:1-6E. |Satan attacking Job, and Job suffering the trial in his body—2:7-10II. |The debates between Job and his three friends—2:11-32:1A. |The coming and consoling of Job's three friends—2:11-13B. |Job's cursing of the day of his birth—3:1-26C. |The first round of debates—4:1-11:20
1. |Eliphaz's answer to Job by rebuking—4:1-5:27
2. |Job's vindication—6:1-7:21
3. |Bildad's rebuttal—8:1-22
4. |Job's unyieldingness—9:1-10:22
5. |Zophar's blind argument—11:1-20
D. |The second round of debates—12:1-20:29
1. |Job's superiority complex in the matter of knowing God—12:1-13:2
2. |Job's accusing his friends of being false—13:3-19
3. |Job's arguments with God—13:20-14:22
4. |Eliphaz's rebuke and warning—15:1-35
5. |Job's rejection of his friends' words—16:1-6
6. |Job's desire that God would plead for him—16:7-17:16
7. |Bildad's rebuke and warning—18:1-21
8. |Job's complaint against his friends in their wrong reproach—19:1-5
9. |Job's complaint toward God in His severe stripping—19:6-29
10. |Zophar's anger and teaching toward Job—20:1-29
E. |The third round of debates—21:1-32:1
1. |Job's conclusion concerning prosperity and calamity in human life—21:1-34
a. |His calming word to his friends—vv.|1-6b. |The prosperity of the wicked—vv.|7-16c. |Job's questions concerning God's recompense to the wicked—vv.|17-34
2. |Eliphaz's logic concerning the recompense of good and evil—22:1-30
3. |Job's desire to clear up his case with God—23:1-17
4. |Job's knowledge concerning God in His dealings with all kinds of men—24:1-25
5. |Bildad's concluding word—25:1-6
6. |Job's final speaking to his three friends—26:1-32:1
a. |Rebuking Bildad sarcastically—26:1-4b. |Showing off his superior knowledge concerning the unlimited power of God—26:5-14c. |Holding fast insistently to his righteousness and integrity—27:1-7d. |Teaching his friends high-mindedly concerning the hope of the profane man—27:8-23e. |Showing off his high-pitched knowledge concerning the way to find wisdom and understanding—28:1-28f. |Dwelling on his excellent past—29:1-25g. |Sighing over his miserable present—30:1-31h. |Boasting of his uprightness, righteousness, integrity, and perfection—31:1-40i. |Job's three friends ceasing to answer him—32:1III. |Elihu's answer to Job—32:2-37:24A. |His first correction and refutation of Job—32:2-33:33B. |His second correction and refutation of Job—34:1-37B. |His third correction and refutation of Job—35:1-16D. |His final word to Job—36:1-37:24IV. |The dialogue between God and Job—38:1-42:6A. |Jehovah answering Job out of the whirlwind—38:1-3; 40:1-14B. |God appearing to Job with the divine unveilings—38:4-39:30; 40:15-41:34
1. |Concerning the universe—38:4-38
2. |Concerning the animals—38:39-39:30
3. |Again concerning the animals—40:15-41:34
C. |Job gaining God in his personal experience and abhorring himself—42:1-6V. |Jehovah's dealing with the three friends of Job—42:7-9VI. |Job's end—42:10-17Outline of Job
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