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| 1 Job's fortunes and sufferings (1:1-2:10) 1:1 In the land of Uz there was a blameless and upright man named Job, who feared God and avoided evil.(1:1) | Fear to God | 7 Second dialogue of Eliphaz and Job (15:1-17:16) 15:4 You in fact do away with piety, and you lessen devotion toward God, (15:4) |
| 2 Job's friends (2:11-13) 2:13 Then they sat down upon the ground with him seven days and seven nights, but none of them spoke a word to him; for they saw how great was his suffering.(2:13) | Silence / Argument | 6 First dialogue of Zophar and Job (11:1-14:22) 11:2 Should not the man of many words be answered, or must the garrulous man necessarily be right? (11:2) |
| 3 Job curses the day he was born (3:1-26) Let them curse it who curse the sea, the appointed disturbers of Leviathan! (3:8) | Marine monster | 5 First dialogue of Bildad and Job (8:1-10:22) He is God and he does not relent; the helpers of Rahab bow beneath him. (9:13) |
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| 1 Job's fortunes and sufferings (1:1-2:10) 1:1 In the land of Uz there was a blameless and upright man named Job, who feared God and avoided evil.(1:1) | Fear to God | 4 First dialogue of Eliphaz and Job (4:1-7:21) 4:6 Is not your piety a source of confidence, and your integrity of life your hope? (4:6) |
| 2 Job's friends (2:11-13) 2:13 Then they sat down upon the ground with him seven days and seven nights, but none of them spoke a word to him; for they saw how great was his suffering.(2:13) | Hardship of Job | 3 Job curses the day he was born (3:1-26) 3:1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day. (3:1) |
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| 4 First dialogue of Eliphaz and Job (4:1-7:21) 4:6 Is not your piety a source of confidence, and your integrity of life your hope? (4:6) | Fear to God | 7 Second dialogue of Eliphaz and Job (15:1-17:16) 15:4 You in fact do away with piety, and you lessen devotion toward God, (15:4) |
| 5 First dialogue of Bildad and Job (8:1-10:22) 8:6 Should you be blameless and upright, surely now he will awake for you and restore your rightful domain; (8:6) | Job's innocence | 6 First dialogue of Zophar and Job (11:1-14:22) 11:4 Shall you say: "My teaching is pure, and I am clean in your sight"? (11:4) |
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| 7 Second dialogue of Eliphaz and Job (15:1-17:16) 15:8 Are you privy to the counsels of God, and do you restrict wisdom to yourself? (15:8) | Gaining wisdom | 13 Where wisdom is found (28:1-28) 28:12 But whence can wisdom be obtained, and where is the place of understanding? (28:12) |
| 8 Second dialogue of Bildad and Job (18:1-19:29) 18:5 Truly, the light of the wicked is extinguished; no flame brightens his hearth. (18:5) | The wicked | 12 Words of Job (27:1-23) 27:13 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the inheritance an oppressor receives from the Almighty:(27:13) |
| 9 Second dialogue of Zophar and Job (20:1-21:34) 21:22 Can anyone teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those on high?(21:22) | Giving wisdom | 11 Third dialogue of Bildad and Job (25:1-26:14) 26:3 How you counsel, as though he had no wisdom; how profuse is the advice you offer! (26:3) |
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| 7 Second dialogue of Eliphaz and Job (15:1-17:16) 15:23 They know that a day of darkness is ready at hand 15:23) | Covered by darkness | 10 Third dialogue of Eliphaz and Job (22:1-24:25) 22:11 Or darkness, in which you cannot see; a deluge of waters covers you. (22:11) |
| 8 Second dialogue of Bildad and Job (18:1-19:29) 19:11 His wrath he has kindled against me; he counts me among his enemies. (19:11) | Becoming a enemy of God | 9 Second dialogue of Zophar and Job (20:1-21:34) 21:7 Why do the wicked survive, grow old, become mighty in power? (21:7) |
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| 10 Third dialogue of Eliphaz and Job (22:1-24:25) 22:25 Then the Almighty himself shall be your gold and your sparkling silver. (22:25) | What is better than gold and silver | 13 Where wisdom is found (28:1-28) 28:15 Solid gold cannot purchase it, nor can its price be paid with silver. (28:15) |
| 11 Third dialogue of Bildad and Job (25:1-26:14) 26:4 With whose help have you uttered those words, and whose is the breath that comes forth from you? (26:4) | The breath | 12 Words of Job (27:1-23) 27:3 So long as I still have life in me and the breath of God is in my nostrils, (27:3) |
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| 13 Where wisdom is found (28:1-28) 28:20 Whence, then, comes wisdom, and where is the place of understanding? (28:20) | Where is | 19 The LORD answers Job (38:1-39:30) 38:4 Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. (38:4) |
| 14 Words of Job (29:1-31:40) Is it not calamity for the unrighteous, and woe for evildoers? (31:3) | Judgment of God | 18 Elifu proclaims God's majesty (36:1-37:24) He withholds not the just man's rights, but grants vindication to the oppressed, (36:6) |
| 15 Elifu rebukes Job and Job's friend (32:1-33:33) 33:9 "I am clean and without transgression; I am innocent; there is no guilt in me. 33:10 Yet he invents pretexts against me and reckons me as his enemy. 33:11 He puts my feet in the stocks; he watches all my ways!" (33:9-11) | Elihus blaming against Jobs word | 17 Elifu condemns self-righteousness (35:1-16) Do you think it right to say, "I am just rather than God?" (35:2) |
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| 13 Where wisdom is found (28:1-28) 28:12 But whence can wisdom be obtained, and where is the place of understanding? (28:12) | Wisdom | 16 Elifu proclaims God's justice (34:1-37) 34:2 Hear, O wise men, my discourse, and you that have knowledge, hear me! (34:2) |
| 14 Words of Job (29:1-31:40) 30:17 My frame takes no rest by night; my inward parts seethe and will not be stilled. (30:17) | Great pain | 15 Elifu rebukes Job and Job's friend (32:1-33:33) 33:19 Or a man is chastened on his bed by pain and unceasing suffering within his frame, (33:19) |
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| 16 Elifu proclaims God's justice (34:1-37) 34:35 "Job speaks without intelligence, and his words are without sense." (34:35) | Ignorance of Job | 19 The LORD answers Job (38:1-39:30) 38:2 Who is this that obscures divine plans with words of ignorance? (38:2) |
| 17 Elifu condemns self-righteousness (35:1-16) 35:7 If you are righteous, what do you give him, or what does he receive from your hand? (35:7) | Righteousness | 18 Elifu proclaims God's majesty (36:1-37:24) 36:3 I will bring my knowledge from afar, and to my Maker I will accord the right. (36:3) |
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| 19 The LORD answers Job (38:1-39:30) 38:4 Where were you when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. (38:4) | The almighty | 25 Job's fortunes (42:11-17) 42:12 Thus the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his earlier ones. For he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. (42:12) |
| 20 Words of the LORD (40:1-2) Words of the LORD to Job | Words of the LORD | 24 Job's friends are humiliated (42:7-10) Words of the LORD to Job's friends |
| 21 Words of Job (40:3-5) Job's response to the LORD | Job's response to the LORD | 23 Words of Job (42:1-6) Job's response to the LORD |
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| 19 The LORD answers Job (38:1-39:30) 38:1 Then the LORD addressed Job out of the storm and said:(38:1) | The LORD addresses | 22 Words of the LORD (40:6-41:26) 40:6 Then the LORD addressed Job out of the storm and said: (40:6) |
| 20 Words of the LORD (40:1-2) 40:1 The LORD then said to Job: (40:1) | Responses between Job and the LORD | 21 Words of Job (40:3-5) 40:3 Then Job answered the LORD and said: (40:3) |
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| 22 Words of the LORD (40:6-41:26) 41:3 Who has assailed him and come off safe-- Who under all the heavens? (41:3) | Blessing of the LORD | 25 Job's fortunes (42:11-17) 42:12 Thus the LORD blessed the latter days of Job more than his earlier ones. For he had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. (42:12) |
| 23 Words of Job (42:1-6) 42:6 Therefore I disown what I have said, and repent in dust and ashes. (42:6) | Repentance | 24 Job's friends are humiliated (42:7-10) 42:9 Then Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did as the LORD had commanded them. And the LORD accepted the intercession of Job. (42:9) |