1 The holiness, riches, and religious care of Job for his children.
6 Satan, appearing before God, by calumniation obtains leave to afflict Job.
13 Understanding of the loss of his children and goods, in his mourning he blesses God.
1 Satan appearing again before God, obtains further leave to tempt Job.
7 He smites him with sore boils.
9 Job reproves his wife, who moved him to curse God.
11 His three friends console with him in silence.
1 Job curses the day and services of his birth.
13 The ease of death.
20 He complains of life, because of his anguish.
1 Eliphaz reproves Job for want of religion.
7 He teaches God's judgments to be not for the righteous, but for the wicked.
12 His fearful vision to humble the excellency of creatures before God.
1 Eliphaz shews that the end of the wicked is misery;
6 that man is born to trouble;
8 that God is to be regarded in affliction;
17 the happy end of God's correction.
1 Job shews that his complaints are not causeless.
8 He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort.
14 He reproves his friends of unkindness.
1 Job excuses his desire of death.
12 He complains of his own restlessness, and expostulates with God.
1 Bildad shews God's justice in dealing with men according to their works.
8 He alleges antiquity to prove the certain destruction of the hypocrite.
20 He applies God's just dealing to Job.
1 Job acknowledges God's justice.
22 Man's innocency is not to be condemned by afflictions.
1 Job, taking liberty of complaint, expostulates with God about his afflictions.
18 He complains of life, and craves a little ease before death.
1 Zophar reproves Job for justifying himself.
5 God's wisdom is unsearchable.
13 The assured blessing of repentance.
1 Job maintains himself against his friends that reprove him.
7 He acknowledges the general doctrine of God's omnipotence.
1 Job reproves his friends for partiality.
14 He professes his confidence in God; and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him.
1 Job entreats God for favour, by the shortness of life, and certainty of death.
7 He waits for his change.
16 By sin the creature is subject to corruption.
1 Eliphaz reproves Job for impiety in justifying himself.
17 He proves by tradition the unquietness of wicked men.
1 Job reproves his friends for unmercifulness.
17 He maintains his innocency.
1 Job appeals from men to God.
6 The unmerciful dealing of men with the afflicted may astonish, but not discourage the righteous.
11 His hope is not in life, but in death.
1 Bildad reproves Job for presumption and impatience.
5 The calamities of the wicked.
1 Job, complaining of his friends' cruelty, shews there is misery enough in him to feed their cruelty.
21 He craves pity.
23 He believes the resurrection.
1 Zophar shews the state and portion of the wicked.
1 Job shews that even in the judgment of man he has reason to be grieved.
7 Sometimes the wicked prosper, though they despise God.
16 Sometimes their destruction is manifest.
21 The happy and unhappy are alike in death.
27 The judgment of the wicked is in another world.
1 Eliphaz shews that man's goodness profits not God.
5 He accuses Job of divers sins.
21 He exhorts him to repentance, with promises of mercy.
1 Job longs to appear before God,
6 in confidence of his mercy.
8 God, who is invisible, observes our ways.
11 Job's innocency.
13 God's decree is immutable.
1 Wickedness often goes unpunished.
17 There is a secret judgment for the wicked.
1 Bildad shews that man cannot be justified before God.
1 Job, reproving the uncharitable spirit of Bildad,
5 acknowledges the power of God to be infinite and unsearchable.
1 Job protests his sincerity.
8 The hypocrite is without hope.
11 The blessings which the wicked have are turned into curses.
1 There is a knowledge of natural things.
12 But wisdom is an excellent gift of God.
1 Job bemoans his former prosperity.
1 Job's honour is turned into extreme contempt;
15 and his prosperity into calamity.
1 Job makes a solemn protestation of his integrity in several duties.
1 Elihu is angry with Job and his three friends.
6 Because wisdom comes not from age, he excuses the boldness of his youth.
11 He reproves them for not satisfying Job.
16 His zeal to speak.
1 Elihu offers himself instead of God to reason with Job.
8 He excuses God from giving man an account of his ways, by his greatness.
14 God calls man to repentance by visions, by afflictions, and by his ministry.
31 He incites Job to attention.
1 Elihu accuses Job for charging God with injustice.
10 God omnipotent cannot be unjust.
31 Man must humble himself unto God.
34 Elihu reproves Job.
1 Comparison is not to be made with God, because our good or evil cannot extend unto him.
9 Many cry in their afflictions, but are not heard for want of faith.
1 Elihu shews how God is just in his ways.
16 How Job's sins hinder God's blessings.
24 God's works are to be magnified.
1 God is to be feared because of his great works.
15 His wisdom is unsearchable in them.
1 God challenges Job to answer.
4 God, by his mighty works, convinces Job of ignorance,
31 and of imbecility.
1 Of the wild goats and hinds.
5 Of the wild ass.
9 The unicorn.
13 The peacock, stork, and ostrich.
19 The horse.
26 The hawk.
27 The eagle.
1 Job humbles himself to God.
6 God stirs him up to shew his righteousness, power, and wisdom.
16 Of the behemoth.
1 Of God's great power in the leviathan.
1 Job submits himself unto God.
7 God, preferring Job's cause, makes his friends submit themselves, and accepts him.
10 He magnifies and blesses Job.
16 Job's age and death.
