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Job

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I.  Introduction—1:1-2:10A.  Job the man—1:1-5B.  A council held in heaven concerning Job—1:6-12aC.  Satan attacking Job, and Job suffering trials in the matter of his possessions and children—1:12b-22D.  A council held again in heaven concerning Job—2:1-6E.  Satan attacking Job, and Job suffering the trial in his body—2:7-10II.  The debates between Job and his three friends—2:11-32:1A.  The coming and consoling of Job's three friends—2:11-13B.  Job's cursing of the day of his birth—3:1-26C.  The first round of debates—4:1-11:20
1.  Eliphaz's answer to Job by rebuking—4:1-5:27
2.  Job's vindication—6:1-7:21
3.  Bildad's rebuttal—8:1-22
4.  Job's unyieldingness—9:1-10:22
5.  Zophar's blind argument—11:1-20
D.  The second round of debates—12:1-20:29
1.  Job's superiority complex in the matter of knowing God—12:1-13:2
2.  Job's accusing his friends of being false—13:3-19
3.  Job's arguments with God—13:20-14:22
4.  Eliphaz's rebuke and warning—15:1-35
5.  Job's rejection of his friends' words—16:1-6
6.  Job's desire that God would plead for him—16:7-17:16
7.  Bildad's rebuke and warning—18:1-21
8.  Job's complaint against his friends in their wrong reproach—19:1-5
9.  Job's complaint toward God in His severe stripping—19:6-29
10.  Zophar's anger and teaching toward Job—20:1-29
E.  The third round of debates—21:1-32:1
1.  Job's conclusion concerning prosperity and calamity in human life—21:1-34
a.  His calming word to his friends—vv. 1-6b.  The prosperity of the wicked—vv. 7-16c.  Job's questions concerning God's recompense to the wicked—vv. 17-34
2.  Eliphaz's logic concerning the recompense of good and evil—22:1-30
3.  Job's desire to clear up his case with God—23:1-17
4.  Job's knowledge concerning God in His dealings with all kinds of men—24:1-25
5.  Bildad's concluding word—25:1-6
6.  Job's final speaking to his three friends—26:1-32:1
a.  Rebuking Bildad sarcastically—26:1-4b.  Showing off his superior knowledge concerning the unlimited power of God—26:5-14c.  Holding fast insistently to his righteousness and integrity—27:1-7d.  Teaching his friends high-mindedly concerning the hope of the profane man—27:8-23e.  Showing off his high-pitched knowledge concerning the way to find wisdom and understanding—28:1-28f.  Dwelling on his excellent past—29:1-25g.  Sighing over his miserable present—30:1-31h.  Boasting of his uprightness, righteousness, integrity, and perfection—31:1-40i.  Job's three friends ceasing to answer him—32:1III.  Elihu's answer to Job—32:2-37:24A.  His first correction and refutation of Job—32:2-33:33B.  His second correction and refutation of Job—34:1-37B.  His third correction and refutation of Job—35:1-16D.  His final word to Job—36:1-37:24IV.  The dialogue between God and Job—38:1-42:6A.  Jehovah answering Job out of the whirlwind—38:1-3; 40:1-14B.  God appearing to Job with the divine unveilings—38:4-39:30; 40:15-41:34
1.  Concerning the universe—38:4-38
2.  Concerning the animals—38:39-39:30
3.  Again concerning the animals—40:15-41:34
C.  Job gaining God in his personal experience and abhorring himself—42:1-6V.  Jehovah's dealing with the three friends of Job—42:7-9VI.  Job's end—42:10-17Outline of Job
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