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Job: chapter summaries

A good man suffers; his friends and God speak.

42 chapters · Old Testament

  1. 1 Job’s faith is tested
  2. 2 Job’s affliction; the friends come
  3. 3 Job laments his birth
  4. 4 Eliphaz speaks
  5. 5 Eliphaz continues
  6. 6 Job answers Eliphaz
  7. 7 Job’s complaint to God
  8. 8 Bildad speaks
  9. 9 How can a person be right with God?
  10. 10 Job asks God why
  11. 11 Zophar speaks
  12. 12 Job on God’s wisdom and power
  13. 13 Job wants to plead his case
  14. 14 Human life is short
  15. 15 Eliphaz’s second speech
  16. 16 Job: miserable comforters
  17. 17 Job’s hope fades
  18. 18 Bildad’s second speech
  19. 19 “I know that my Redeemer lives”
  20. 20 Zophar’s second speech
  21. 21 Job: the wicked often prosper
  22. 22 Eliphaz’s third speech
  23. 23 Job longs to find God
  24. 24 Injustice in the world
  25. 25 Bildad’s third speech
  26. 26 Job on God’s power
  27. 27 Job holds to his integrity
  28. 28 Where wisdom is found
  29. 29 Job remembers better days
  30. 30 Job’s present suffering
  31. 31 Job’s final defense
  32. 32 Elihu begins to speak
  33. 33 Elihu: God speaks to us
  34. 34 Elihu: God is just
  35. 35 Elihu: does God heed human sin?
  36. 36 Elihu: God’s greatness
  37. 37 Elihu: the power of the storm
  38. 38 God answers from the whirlwind
  39. 39 God points to his creatures
  40. 40 Job answers; the Lord shows Behemoth
  41. 41 The Lord describes Leviathan
  42. 42 Job’s reply; his restoration