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Job 1-2Job pious and prosperous; Perseveres through trials
Job 3Job's initial lament
Job 4-5Eliphaz's first speech: The innocent do not suffer
Job 6-7Job's response: Pleading for comfort
Job 8Bildad's first speech: God does not reject the blameless
Job 9-10Job's response: How can a man contend with God?
Job 11Zophar's first speech: Job needs to repent
Job 12:1-13:19Job's response: Rather than seek answers of his worthless friends, Job would seek them of God
Job 13:20-14:22Job appeals to God
Job 15Eliphaz's second speech: It is the wicked who suffer endlessly, defy God and lose all they have
Job 16-17Job's response: His friends are miserable comforters
Job 18Bildad's second speech: The wicked are wiped out
Job 19Job's response: Laments suffering but trusts in his Redeemer and resurrection
Job 20Zophar's second speech: The heritage of the wicked
Job 21Job's response: The wicked often prosper
Job 22Eliphaz's third speech: False charges against Job
Job 23-24Job's response: God would find him innocent; Why do the innocent suffer and the guilty get away with it?
Job 25-26Bildad's third speech: How can man be righteous before God?; Job's response: Bildad has been useless in helping Job and in explaining God
Job 27-28Job's response continued: Those who mistreat him are wicked and will be judged; Wisdom comes only from God
Job 29-30Job's summary discourse: He was blessed and respected but is now mocked and devastated
Job 31:1-32:1Job's summary discourse concludes: He is innocent
Job 32:2-33:33Elihu's first speech: Suffering is to teach and save men
Job 34-35Elihu's second and third speeches: Defends God's justice
Job 36-37Elihu's fourth speech: Further defense of God and proclamation of the Creator's vast power and wisdom
Job 38:39-40:5God's first discourse continued: He rules and tends the animal world First discourse concludes: Will Job correct God, Job's first response to God: He has no answer
Job 38:1-38God's first discourse: He rules and tends the universe
Job 40:6-41:34God's second discourse: Does Job think he can do a better job of being God?; Behemoth and Leviathan
Job 42Job repents and is restored and blessed