Job Outline

1. Job's Holiness; Satan's First Test: Loss of His Children and Goods
1. The holiness, riches, and reverent care of Job for his children.
6. Satan, appearing before God, obtains leave to afflict Job.
13. Understanding of the loss of his children and goods, in his mourning Job blesses God.
2. Job's Second Test: Job Loses His Health
1. Satan, appearing again before God, obtains further leave to tempt Job.
7. He afflicts him with sore boils.
9. Job reproves his wife, who moved him to curse God.
11. His three friends console with him in silence.
3. Job's Lament
1. Job curses the day and services of his birth.
13. The ease of death.
20. He complains of life, because of his anguish.
4. Eliphaz Reproves Job
1. Eliphaz reproves Job that the innocent do not suffer
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.
5. Eliphaz Shows that God Is Just
1. Eliphaz shows 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.
6. Job's Reproves His Friends of Their Unkindness
1. Job shows that his complaints are not causeless.
8. He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort.
14. He reproves his friends of unkindness.
7. Job Declares His Life Seems Futile
1. Job excuses his desire of death.
12. He complains of his own restlessness, and reasons with God.
8. Bildad Shows God's Justice to the Good
1. Bildad shows 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.
9. Job Acknowledges God's Justice
1. Job acknowledges God's justice
22. Man's innocence is not to be condemned by afflictions
10. Job Complains to God, Craves a Little Ease Before Death
1. Job, taking liberty of complaint, expostulates with God about his afflictions
18. He complains of life, and craves a little ease before death
11. Zophar Rebukes Job for Justifying Himself; God's Wisdom Is Unsearchable
1. Zophar reproves Job for justifying himself
5. God's wisdom is unsearchable
13. The assured blessing of repentance
12. Job Maintains Himself against His Friends; Acknowledges God's Omnipotence
1. Job maintains himself against his friends that reprove him
7. He acknowledges the doctrine of God's omnipotence
13. Job Reproves His Friends for Partiality, Professes Confidence in God's Purpose
1. Job reproves his friends for partiality
14. He professes his confidence in God;
19. and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him
14. Job Asks God for Favor Because of the Shortness of Life
1. Job entreats God for favor, by the shortness of life, and certainty of death
7. He waits for his change
16. By sin the creature is subject to corruption
15. Eliphaz Reproves Job for Justifying Himself; Declares the Wickedness of Men
1. Eliphaz reproves Job for impiety in justifying himself
17. He proves by tradition the restlessness of wicked men
16. Job Reproves His Friends for Their Unmerciful Outlook; Maintains His Innocence
1. Job reproves his friends for unmercifulness
17. He maintains his innocence
17. Job Appeals from Men to God
1. Job appeals from men to God
6. The unmerciful dealing of men with the afflicted may astonish,
9. but not discourage the righteous
11. His hope is not in life, but in death
18. Bildad Reproves Job for Presumption and Impatience
1. Bildad reproves Job for presumption and impatience
5. The calamities of the wicked
19. Job Feels Insulted, Craves Pity, Believes the Resurrection
1. Job, complaining of his friends' cruelty,
6. shows there is misery enough in him to feed their cruelty
21. He craves pity
23. He believes the resurrection
20. Zophar Declares the Triumph of the Wicked Is Brief
1. Zophar shows the state and portion of the wicked
21. Job Says God Will Deal with the Wicked
1. Job shows 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
22. Eliphaz Accuses and Exhorts Job to Repentance
1. Eliphaz shows that man's goodness profits not God
5. He accuses Job of various sins
21. He exhorts him to repentance, with promises of mercy
23. Job Longs to Appear before God
1. Job longs to appear before God
6. in confidence of his mercy
8. God, who is invisible, observes our ways
11. Job's innocence
13. God's decree is immutable
24. Wickedness is Often Unpunished, but there is a Secret Judgment for the Wicked
1. Wickedness often goes unpunished
17. There is a secret judgment for the wicked
25. Bildad Says that Man Cannot be Justified before God
1. Bildad shows that man cannot be justified before God
26. Job Declares the Greatness of God
1. Job, reproving the uncharitable spirit of Bildad
5. acknowledges the power of God to be infinite and unsearchable
27. Job Affirms His Own Righteousness; The wicked Will be Cursed
1. Job protests his sincerity
8. The hypocrite is without hope
11. The blessings which the wicked have are turned into curses
28. Wisdom Is Harder to Obtain than Earth's Treasures
1. There is a knowledge of natural things
12. But wisdom is an excellent gift of God
29. Job Bemoans His Former Prosperity
1. Job bemoans his former prosperity
30. Job's Present State Is Humiliating
1. Job's honor is turned into extreme contempt
15. and his prosperity into calamity
31. Job Asserts His Integrity
1. Job makes a solemn protestation of his integrity in several duties
32. Elihu Rebukes Job and His Three Friends
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
33. Elihu Declares God Calls Man to Repentance by Visions and Afflictions
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
34. Elihu Accuses Job for Charging God with Injustice
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
35. Many Cry in Affliction, But Are Not Heard for Lack of Faith
1. Comparison is not to be made with God,
6. because our good or evil cannot extend unto him
9. Many cry in their afflictions, but are not heard for lack of faith
36. Elihu Shows How Job's Sins Hinder God's Blessings
1. Elihu shows how God is just in his ways
16. How Job's sins hinder God's blessings
24. God's works are to be magnified
37. Elihu Says God is to be Feared Because of His Great Works
1. God is to be feared because of his great works
15. His wisdom is unsearchable in them
38. God, Speaks, Convinces Job of Ignorance
1. God challenges Job to answer
4. God, by his mighty works, convinces Job of ignorance
31. and weakness
39. God Speaks of His Creation
1. Of the wild goats and hinds
5. Of the wild donkey
9. The unicorn
13. The peacock, stork, and ostrich
19. The horse
26. The hawk
27. The eagle
40. Job Humbles Himself to God
1. Job humbles himself to God
6. God stirs him up to show his righteousness, power, and wisdom
16. Of the behemoth
41. God's Power Shown in Creatures
1. Of God's great power in the leviathan
42. Job Confesses; God Makes His Friends Submit; God Blesses Job
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