Overview & Outline – Job - Testing, Suffering, Faith, and The Sovereignty Of God

Job - Testing, Suffering, Faith, and The Sovereignty Of God

Job

I. Job 1-3 Job's Affliction and Lament

1. Job's Godliness and the First Test: Loss of Possessions and Children

2. The Second Test: Affliction with Boils and Job's Response

3. Job Curses His Birth Day

II. Job 4-14 The First Cycle of Speeches

4. Eliphaz's First Speech

5. Eliphaz Concludes His First Speech

6. Job's Reply to Eliphaz

7. Job Continues His Complaint

8. Bildad's First Speech

9. Job's Reply to Bildad

10. Job Continues His Plea

11. Zophar's First Speech

12. Job's Reply to Zophar

13. Job Continues His Defense

14. Job Speaks of Man's Frailty

III. Job 15-21 The Second Cycle of Speeches

15. Eliphaz's Second Speech

16. Job's Reply to Eliphaz

17. Job Continues His Lament

18. Bildad's Second Speech

19. Job's Reply to Bildad

20. Zophar's Second Speech

21. Job's Reply to Zophar

IV. Job 22-31 The Third Cycle of Speeches and Job's Final Defense

22. Eliphaz's Third Speech

23. Job's Reply to Eliphaz

24. Job Speaks of the Wicked

25. Bildad's Third Speech

26. Job's Reply to Bildad

27. Job Maintains His Integrity

28. The Search for Wisdom

29. Job Remembers His Former Prosperity

30. Job Describes His Present Misery

31. Job's Final Oath of Innocence

V. Job 32-37 Elihu's Speeches

32. Elihu Begins to Speak

33. Elihu Addresses Job

34. Elihu Continues His Discourse

35. Elihu Speaks of God's Justice

36. Elihu Magnifies God's Greatness

37. Elihu Declares God's Power in Nature

VI. Job 38-42 The LORD Speaks and Job Is Restored

38. The LORD Answers Job Out of the Whirlwind

39. The LORD Continues with Examples from Creation

40. Job Humbles Himself and the LORD Challenges Him Further

41. The Description of Leviathan

42. Job Repents, the LORD Rebukes the Friends, and Job Is Restored