Job 39
Titles for Pericopes/Passages in Job:
I. The Prologue (1:1-2:13) Job's Good Life |
Satan's Accusation of Job |
Job's Integrity in Adversity |
Satan's Additional Charge |
Job's Integrity in Suffering |
The Visit of Job's Friends |
II. Job's Dialogue With His Friends (3:1-27:33) Job Regrets His Birth |
Job Wishes He Had Died at Birth |
Ungodly Complainers Provoke God's Wrath |
Blessings for the One Who Seeks God |
Complaints Reflect Suffering |
Job Remonstrates with God |
Bildad's First Speech to Job |
The Impossibility of Facing God in Court |
Accusation of God's Justice |
Contradictions in God's Dealings |
Zophar's First Speech to Job |
Knowledge of God's Wisdom |
Job Pleads His Cause to God |
The Inevitability of Death |
The Possibility of Another Life |
Abandonment by God and Man |
An Appeal to God as Witness |
Job's Abandonment and Affliction |
Job's Assurance of Vindication |
How Often Do the Wicked Suffer? |
Futile Words, Deceptive Answers |
The Inaccessibility and Power of God |
The Apparent Indifference of God |
A Better Description of God's Greatness |
The Condition of the Wicked |
III. Job's Search for Wisdom (28:1-28) No Known Road to Wisdom |
IV. Job's Concluding Soliloquy (29:1-31:40) Job Recalls His Former Condition |
The Contrast With the Past |
V. The Speeches of Elihu (32:1-37:24) Elihu's First Speech |
Job's Friends Failed to Answer |
Elihu Invites Job's Attention |
Elihu Rejects Job's Plea of Innocence |
Elihu Disagrees With Job's View of God |
God Is Impartial and Omniscient |
The Work and Wisdom of God |
VI. The Divine Speeches (38:1-42:6) The Lord's First Speech |
Job's Reply to God's Challenge |
The Description of Behemoth |
The Description of Leviathan |
VII. The Epilogue (42:7-17) |