Commentary > Job

Scripture	Topic
Job 1-2	Job pious and prosperous; Perseveres through trials
Job 3	Job's initial lament
Job 4-5	Eliphaz's first speech: The innocent do not suffer
Job 6-7	Job's response: Pleading for comfort
Job 8	Bildad's first speech: God does not reject the blameless
Job 9-10	Job's response: How can a man contend with God?
Job 11	Zophar's first speech: Job needs to repent
Job 12:1-13:19	Job's response: Rather than seek answers of his worthless friends, Job would seek them of God
Job 13:20-14:22	Job appeals to God
Job 15	Eliphaz's second speech: It is the wicked who suffer endlessly, defy God and lose all they have
Job 16-17	Job's response: His friends are miserable comforters
Job 18	Bildad's second speech: The wicked are wiped out
Job 19	Job's response: Laments suffering but trusts in his Redeemer and resurrection
Job 20	Zophar's second speech: The heritage of the wicked
Job 21	Job's response: The wicked often prosper
Job 22	Eliphaz's third speech: False charges against Job
Job 23-24	Job's response: God would find him innocent; Why do the innocent suffer and the guilty get away with it?
Job 25-26	Bildad'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 27-28	Job's response continued: Those who mistreat him are wicked and will be judged; Wisdom comes only from God
Job 29-30	Job's summary discourse: He was blessed and respected but is now mocked and devastated
Job 31:1-32:1	Job's summary discourse concludes: He is innocent
Job 32:2-33:33	Elihu's first speech: Suffering is to teach and save men
Job 34-35	Elihu's second and third speeches: Defends God's justice
Job 36-37	Elihu's fourth speech: Further defense of God and proclamation of the Creator's vast power and wisdom
Job 38:39-40:5	God'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 38:1-38	God's first discourse: He rules and tends the universe
Job 40:6-41:34	God's second discourse: Does Job think he can do a better job of being God?; Behemoth and Leviathan
Job 42	Job repents and is restored and blessed