EUGENE J. MAYHEW
OUTLINE
Introduction
I. Job’s Circumstances and Calamities (1:1–2:13)
A. Job’s Status before His Calamities (1:1-5)
B. Satan’s Challenge to God about Job (1:6-11)
C. God’s Permission to Satan to Afflict Job’s Possessions (1:12-22)
D. God’s Permission to Satan to Afflict Job’s Body (2:1-6)
E. Job’s Reaction to His Losses (2:7-10)
F. Job’s Three Friends Arrive to Comfort Him (2:11-13)
II. First Round of Speeches between Job and His Three Friends (3:1–14:22)
A. Job Laments His Condition (3:1-26)
B. Eliphaz Delivers His First Speech (4:1–5:27)
C. Job Responds to Eliphaz’s Charges (6:1–7:21)
D. Bildad Delivers His First Speech (8:1-22)
E. Job Responds to Bildad’s Charges (9:1–10:22)
F. Zophar Delivers His First Speech (11:1-20)
G. Job Responds to Zophar’s Charges (12:1–14:22)
III. Second Round of Speeches between Job and His Friends (15:1–21:34)
A. Eliphaz Delivers His Second Speech (15:1-35)
B. Job Responds to Eliphaz’s Charges (16:1–17:16)
C. Bildad Delivers His Second Speech (18:1-21)
D. Job Responds to Bildad’s Charges (19:1-29)
E. Zophar Delivers His Second Speech (20:1-29)
F. Job Responds to Zophar’s Charges (21:1-34)
IV. Third Round of Speeches between Job and His Three Friends (22:1–26:14)
A. Eliphaz Delivers His Third Speech (22:1-30)
B. Job Responds to Eliphaz’s Charges (23:1–24:25)
C. Bildad Delivers His Third Speech (25:1-6)
D. Job Responds to Bildad’s Charges (26:1-14)
V. Job Continues His Speeches (27:1–31:40)
A. Job’s Final Speech to His Friends (27:1-23)
B. Job’s Message concerning God’s Wisdom (28:1-28)
C. Job Reviews His Life (29:1–31:40)
VI. The Speeches of Elihu (32:1–37:24)
A. His First Speech about Job, His Friends, and God’s Work (32:1–33:33)
B. His Second Speech (34:1-37)
C. His Third Speech (35:1-16)
D. His Fourth Speech (36:1–37:24)
VII. God Speaks to Job (38:1–42:17)
A. God’s First Speech about His Knowledge (38:1–40:2)
B. Job’s Response to God’s First Speech (40:3-5)
C. God’s Second Speech about His Power (40:6–41:34)
D. Job’s Repentance before God (42:1-6)
E. Job’s Restoration by God (42:7-17)