The Book of Job
JOB - So named from Job, its chief character, the book deals with an ageless question, one that is puzzling to every generation - the problem of human suffering, particularly the affliction of the righteous. The reader is given an account of the sufferings of the pious Patriarch Job, of the argument carried on between Job and his friends as to the cause of his sufferings, and finally, of the solution to his difficulty,. The book’s principal aim is to refute the popular view that all suffering is the result of sin in the life of the sufferer.
Author: UNKNOWN?
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
kjv@Job:1:1-5 | Prologue |
kjv@Job:1:6-22 | Job's First Test |
kjv@Job:2:1-10 | Job's Second Test |
kjv@Job:2:11-13 | Job's Three Friends |
kjv@Job:3 | Job Speaks |
kjv@Job:4-5 | Eliphaz |
kjv@Job:6-7 | Job |
kjv@Job:8 | Bildad |
kjv@Job:9-10 | Job |
kjv@Job:11 | Zophar |
kjv@Job:12-14 | Job |
kjv@Job:15 | Eliphaz |
kjv@Job:16-17 | Job |
kjv@Job:18 | Bildad |
kjv@Job:19 | Job |
kjv@Job:20 | Zophar |
kjv@Job:21 | Job |
kjv@Job:22 | Eliphaz |
kjv@Job:23-24 | Job |
kjv@Job:25 | Bildad |
kjv@Job:26-31 | Job |
kjv@Job:32-37 | Elihu |
kjv@Job:38-41 | The LORD Speaks |
kjv@Job:42:1-6 | Job |
kjv@Job:42:7-17 | Epilogue |
(see also: BIBLEBYCHAPTER-Job )
SUMMARY:
Quote easton Dictionary - easton 'Job, Book of'
Job, Book of
(1.) An historical introduction in prose (ch. 1-2).
(2.) The controversy and its solution, in poetry (ch. 3-42:6). Job's desponding lamentation (ch. 3) is the occasion of the controversy which is carried on in three courses of dialogues between Job and his three friends. The first course gives the commencement of the controversy (ch. 4-14); the second the growth of the controversy (15-21); and the third the height of the controversy (22-27). This is followed by the solution of the controversy in the speeches of Elihu and the address of Jehovah, followed by Job's humble confession (42:1-6) of his own fault and folly.
(3.) The third division is the historical conclusion, in prose (42:7-15). Sir J. W. Dawson in "The Expositor" says: "It would now seem that the language and theology of the book of Job can be better explained by supposing it to be a portion of Minean [Southern Arabia] literature obtained by Moses in Midian than in any other way. This view also agrees better than any other with its references to natural objects, the art of mining, and other matters."
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