Job Outline
I. The Prologue: From Prosperity to Destitution (1:1-2:13)
A. Job's Righteousness and Prosperity (1:1-5)
B. The Heavenly Court: The Lord Debates with Satan (1:6-12)
C. The Earthly Events: Job Loses Property and Family (1:13-22)
D. The Heavenly Court: The Lord Debates with Satan (2:1-7a)
E. The Earthly Events: Job Loses His Health (2:7b-10)
F. Job's Friends Arrive to Offer Consolation (2:11-13)
II. The Conversation in Three Cycles (3:1-31:40)
A. Job's Introductory Soliloquy (3:1-26)
B. The First Cycle of Speeches (4:1-14:22)
- Eliphaz (4:1-5:27) Job (6:1-7:21)
- Bildad (8:1-22) Job (9:1-10:22)
- Zophar (11:1-20) Job (121-14:22)
C. The Second Cycle of Speeches (15:1-21:34)
- Eliphaz (15:1-35) Job (16:1-17:16)
- Bildad (18:1-21) Job (19:1-29)
- Zophar (20:1-29) Job (21:1-34)
D. The Third Cycle of Speeches (22:1-27:23)
- Eliphaz (22:1-30) Job (23:1-24:25)
- Bildad (25:1-6) Job (26:1-27:23)
E. Wisdom Poem (28:1-28)
F. Job's Concluding Soliloquy (29:1-31:40)
III. The Reflections of Elihu (32:1 - 37:24)
IV. The Revelation of God from the Whirlwind (38:1-42:6)
A. The Lord’s First Address (38:1-40:2)
B. Job’s First Response (40:3-5)
C. The Lord’s Second Address (40:6-41:26)
D. Job’s Second response (Repentance)(42:1-6)