Old Testament Wisdom & Poetry 42 chapters
Job
A righteous man loses everything and wrestles with why the innocent suffer. His friends' tidy answers fail; God answers from the whirlwind, and Job is humbled and restored.
Outline
- Ch. 1–2 Prologue: heavenly scenes; Job's losses and endurance
- Ch. 3 Job's lament
- Ch. 4–27 Three cycles of dialogue with Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar
- Ch. 28 Poem on wisdom
- Ch. 29–31 Job's final defense
- Ch. 32–37 Elihu's speeches
- Ch. 38–41 The LORD answers from the whirlwind
- Ch. 42 Job's repentance and restoration