OUTLINE OF JOB With Suggested Key Verses

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OUTLINE OF JOB With Suggested Key Verses

• Job 1315 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in
  him but I will maintain mine own ways before
  him.
• Job 3723 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find
  him out he is excellent in power, and in
  judgment, and in plenty of justice he will not
  afflict. Job 3724 Men do therefore fear him he
  respecteth not any that are wise of heart.

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OUTLINE OF JOB

• Job is perhaps the earliest book of theBible. Set
  in the period of the patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac,
  Jacob, and Joseph), it tells the story of a man
  who loses everythinghis wealth, his family, his
  healthand wrestles with the question, Why?
• The book begins with a heavenly debate between
  God and Satan, moves through three cycles of
  earthly debates between Job and his friends, and
  concludes with a dramatic "divine diagnosis" of
  Job's problem. In the end, Job acknowledges the
  sovereignty of God in his life and receives back
  more than he had before his trials.
• lyyob is the Hebrew title for this book, and the
  name has two possible meanings. If derived from
  the Hebrew word for persecution, it means
  "Persecuted One." It is more likely that it comes
  from the Arabic word meaning "To Come Back" or
  "Repent." If so, it may be defined "Repentant
  One." Both meanings apply to the book. The Greek
  title is lob, and the Latin title is lob.
• The Book of Job concerns the transforming crisis
  in the life of a great man who lived perhaps four
  thousand years ago. Job's trust in God (1 and 2)
  changes to complaining and growing
  self-righteousness (331 see 321 and 408), but
  his repentance (421-6) leads to his restoration
  (427-17). The trials bring about an important
  transformation The man after the process is
  different from the man before the process. The
  Book of Job divides into three parts the dilemma
  of Job (1 and 2), the debates of Job (337), and
  the deliverance of Job (3842).

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Part One The Dilemma of Job (11-213)

• The Dilemma of Job (1 and 2) Job is not a
  logical candidate for disaster (see 11, 8). His
  moral integrity and his selfless service to God
  heighten the dilemma. Behind the scene, Satan
  ("accuser") charges that no one loves God from
  pure motives, but only for material blessings
  (110). To refute Satan's accusations, God allows
  him to strike Job with two series of assaults. In
  his sorrow Job laments the day of his birth but
  does not deny God (121 210).

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Part One The Dilemma of Job (11-213)

• I. The Circumstances of Job       11-5   
• II. The First Assault of Satan    16-22  
• III. The Second Assault of Satan    21-10 
• IV. The Arrival of Job's Friends....... 211-13

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Part One The Dilemma of Job (11-213)

• I. The Circumstances of Job       11-5   
• Job 11 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose
  name was Job and that man was perfect and
  upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed
  evil.

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Part One The Dilemma of Job (11-213)

• II. The First Assault of Satan    16-22  
• Job 16 Now there was a day when the sons of God
  came to present themselves before the LORD, and
  Satan came also among them.
• Job 19 Then Satan answered the LORD, and said,
  Doth Job fear God for nought?
• Job 112 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold,
  all that he hath is in thy power only upon
  himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went
  forth from the presence of the LORD.
• Job 122 In all this Job sinned not, nor charged
  God foolishly.

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Part One The Dilemma of Job (11-213)

• III. The Second Assault of Satan    21-10 
• Job 23 And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou
  considered my servant Job, that there is none
  like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright
  man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
  and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although
  thou movedst me against him, to destroy him
  without cause.
• Job 26 And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he
  is in thine hand but save his life.
• Job 29 Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou
  still retain thine integrity? curse God, and die.
  
• Job 210 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as
  one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we
  receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not
  receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with
  his lips.

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Part One The Dilemma of Job (11-213)

• IV. The Arrival of Job's Friends....... 211-13
• Job 211 Now when Job's three friends heard of
  all this evil that was come upon him, they came
  every one from his own place Eliphaz the
  Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the
  Naamathite for they had made an appointment
  together to come to mourn with him and to comfort
  him.

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Part Two The Debates of Job (31-3724)

• The Debates of Job (337) Although Job's
  "comforters" reach wrong conclusions, they are
  his friends of all who know Job, they are the
  only ones who come they mourn with him in seven
  days of silent sympathy they confront Job
  without talking behind his back. However, after
  Job breaks the silence, a three-round debate
  follows in which his friends say Job must be
  suffering because of his sin. Job's responses to
  their simplistic assumptions make the debate
  cycles increase in emotional fervor. He first
  accuses his friends of judging him, and later
  appeals to the Lord as his judge and refuge.
• Job makes three basic complaints (1) God does
  not hear me (133, 24 197 233-5 3020)
  (2) God is punishing me (64 720 917) and
  (3) God allows the wicked to prosper (217). His
  defenses are much longer than his friends'
  accusations in the process of defending his
  innocence, he becomes guilty of
  self-righteousness.
• After Job's five-chapter closing monologue
  (2731), Elihu freshens the air with a more
  perceptive and accurate view than those offered
  by Eliphaz, Bildad, or Zophar (3237). He tells
  Job that he needs to humble himself before God
  and submit to God's process of purifying his life
  through trials.

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I. The First Cycle of Debate.. 31-1422

• A.  Job's First Speech     31-26
• Job 31 After this opened Job his mouth, and
  cursed his day.
• Job 32 And Job spake, and said,
• Job 325 For the thing which I greatly feared is
  come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is
  come unto me.
• Job 326 I was not in safety, neither had I rest,
  neither was I quiet yet trouble came.

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I. The First Cycle of Debate.. 31-1422

• B.  Eliphaz's First Speech     41-527
• 1.      Eliphaz Believes the Innocent Do Not
  Suffer................. 41-21
• Job 41 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and
  said,
• Job 47 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished,
  being innocent? or where were the righteous cut
  off?
• Job 417 Shall mortal man be more just than God?
  shall a man be more pure than his maker?
• 2.       Eliphaz Calls Job Foolish    51-7
• Job 51 Call now, if there be any that will
  answer thee and to which of the saints wilt thou
  turn?
• Job 52 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and
  envy slayeth the silly one.
• 3.       Eliphaz Encourages Job to Appeal to
  God................. 58-16
• Job 58 I would seek unto God, and unto God would
  I commit my cause
• 4.       Eliphaz Encourages Job Not to Despise
  God's Discipline................. 517-27
• Job 517 Behold, happy is the man whom God
  correcteth therefore despise not thou the
  chastening of the Almighty

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I. The First Cycle of Debate.. 31-1422

• C. Job's Reply to Eliphaz     61-721
• 1.      Job's Deep Anguish    61-13
• Job 61 But Job answered and said,
• Job 68 Oh that I might have my request and that
  God would grant me the thing that I long for!
• Job 69 Even that it would please God to destroy
  me that he would let loose his hand, and cut me
  off!
• 2.      Job Seeks His Friends' Sympathy   614-30
• Job 614 To him that is afflicted pity should be
  shewed from his friend but he forsaketh the fear
  of the Almighty.
• 3.      Job Questions God's Continuing
  Trials.................. 71-21
• Job 721 And why dost thou not pardon my
  transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for
  now shall I sleep in the dust and thou shalt
  seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

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I. The First Cycle of Debate.. 31-1422

• D.  Bildad's First Speech     81-22
• Job 81 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and
  said,
• Job 85 If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes,
  and make thy supplication to the Almighty
• Job 86 If thou wert pure and upright surely now
  he would awake for thee, and make the habitation
  of thy righteousness prosperous.

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I. The First Cycle of Debate.. 31-1422

• E.  Job's Response to Bildad     91-1022
• 1.      Job Argues His Case    91-35
• Job 91 Then Job answered and said,
• Job 92 I know it is so of a truth but how
  should man be just with God?
• 2.      Job Questions His Oppression .... 101-22
• Job 102 I will say unto God, Do not condemn me
  shew me wherefore thou contendest with me.
• Job 107 Thou knowest that I am not wicked and
  there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
  
• Job 108 Thine hands have made me and fashioned
  me together round about yet thou dost destroy
  me.

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I. The First Cycle of Debate.. 31-1422

• F.  Zophar's First Speech     111-20
• Job 111 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and
  said,
• Job 115 But oh that God would speak, and open
  his lips against thee
• Job 116 And that he would shew thee the secrets
  of wisdom, that they are double to that which is!
  Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less
  than thine iniquity deserveth.

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I. The First Cycle of Debate.. 31-1422

• G.  Job's Response to Zophar     121-1422
• 1.      Job Tells His Friends Only God
  Knows................. 121-25
• Job 121 And Job answered and said,
• Job 123 But I have understanding as well as you
  I am not inferior to you yea, who knoweth not
  such things as these?
• Job 129 Who knoweth not in all these that the
  hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
• Job 1210 In whose hand is the soul of every
  living thing, and the breath of all mankind.
• 2.      Job Begs God to Speak to Him. .. 131-28
• Job 133 Surely I would speak to the Almighty,
  and I desire to reason with God.
• Job 1315 Though he slay me, yet will I trust in
  him but I will maintain mine own ways before
  him.
• Job 1323 How many are mine iniquities and sins?
  make me to know my transgression and my sin.
• Job 1324 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and
  holdest me for thine enemy?
• 3.      Job Mourns That Man Has Only One
  Life................. 141-22
• Job 147 For there is hope of a tree, if it be
  cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the
  tender branch thereof will not cease.
• Job 1410 But man dieth, and wasteth away yea,
  man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
• Job 1417 My transgression is sealed up in a bag,
  and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

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II. The Second Cycle of Debate 151-2134

• A.  Eliphaz's Second Speech     151-35
• 1.      Job's Mouth Condemns Him    151-13
• Job 151 Then answered Eliphaz the Temanite, and
  said,
• Job 156 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not
  I yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
• 2.      The Wicked Suffer    1514-35
• Job 1514 What is man, that he should be clean?
  and he which is born of a woman, that he should
  be righteous?
• Job 1520 The wicked man travaileth with pain all
  his days, and the number of years is hidden to
  the oppressor.

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II. The Second Cycle of Debate 151-2134

• B.  Job's Response to Eliphaz     161-1716
• 1. Job Calls His Friends Miserable Comforters. .
  .  161-5
• Job 161 Then Job answered and said,
• Job 162 I have heard many such things miserable
  comforters are ye all.
• Job 164 I also could speak as ye do if your
  soul were in my soul's stead, I could heap up
  words against you, and shake mine head at you.
• Job 165 But I would strengthen you with my
  mouth, and the moving of my lips should asswage
  your grief.
• 2. Job Laments His Situation    166-14
• Job 166 Though I speak, my grief is not
  asswaged and though I forbear, what am I eased?
• 3.   Job Defends His Innocence    1615-22
• Job 1616 My face is foul with weeping, and on my
  eyelids is the shadow of death
• Job 1617 Not for any injustice in mine hands
  also my prayer is pure.
• 4.   God Makes Job a Byword    171-16
• Job 176 He hath made me also a byword of the
  people and aforetime I was as a tabret.

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II. The Second Cycle of Debate 151-2134

• C.  Bildad's Second Speech     181-21
• Job 181 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and
  said,
• Job 182 How long will it be ere ye make an end
  of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.
• Job 185 Yea, the light of the wicked shall be
  put out, and the spark of his fire shall not
  shine.

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II. The Second Cycle of Debate 151-2134

• D.  Job's Response to Bildad     191-29
• Job 191 Then Job answered and said,
• Job 1921 Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O
  ye my friends for the hand of God hath touched
  me.
• Job 1925 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and
  that he shall stand at the latter day upon the
  earth
• Job 1926 And though after my skin worms destroy
  this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God
• Job 1927 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine
  eyes shall behold, and not another though my
  reins be consumed within me.

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II. The Second Cycle of Debate 151-2134

• E.  Zophar's Second Speech     201-29
• Job 201 Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and
  said,
• Job 204 Knowest thou not this of old, since man
  was placed upon earth,
• Job 205 That the triumphing of the wicked is
  short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a
  moment?

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II. The Second Cycle of Debate 151-2134

• F.  Job's Response to Zophar     211-34
• Job 211 But Job answered and said,
• Job 217 Wherefore do the wicked live, become
  old, yea, are mighty in power?
• Job 2114 Therefore they say unto God, Depart
  from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy
  ways.
• Job 2134 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing
  in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

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III. The Third Cycle of Debate 221-2614

• A.  Eliphaz's Third Speech     221-30
• Job 221 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and
  said,
• Job 225 Is not thy wickedness great? and thine
  iniquities infinite?
• Job 2221 Acquaint now thyself with him, and be
  at peace thereby good shall come unto thee.
• Job 2222 Receive, I pray thee, the law from his
  mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

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III. The Third Cycle of Debate 221-2614

• B.  Job's Response to Eliphaz     231-2425
• 1.      Job Will Come Forth as Gold .... 231-17
• Job 231 Then Job answered and said,
• Job 2310 But he knoweth the way that I take
  when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as
  gold.
• 2.      God Seems Indifferent to the
  Wicked............... 241-25
• Job 241 Why, seeing times are not hidden from
  the Almighty, do they that know him not see his
  days?
• Job 2425 And if it be not so now, who will make
  me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?

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III. The Third Cycle of Debate 221-2614

• C.  Bildad's Third Speech     251-6
• Job 251 Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and
  said,
• Job 254 How then can man be justified with God?
  or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
• Job 255 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth
  not yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
• Job 256 How much less man, that is a worm? and
  the son of man, which is a worm?

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III. The Third Cycle of Debate 221-2614

• D.  Job's Response to Bildad     261-14
• Job 261 But Job answered and said,
• Job 262 How hast thou helped him that is without
  power? how savest thou the arm that hath no
  strength?
• Job 263 How hast thou counselled him that hath
  no wisdom? and how hast thou plentifully declared
  the thing as it is?
• Job 264 To whom hast thou uttered words? and
  whose spirit came from thee?

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IV. The Final Defense of Job 271-3140

• A.  Job's First Monologue     271-2828
• 1.       Job Affirms His Righteousness    271-23
• Job 271 Moreover Job continued his parable, and
  said,
• Job 276 My righteousness I hold fast, and will
  not let it go my heart shall not reproach me so
  long as I live.
• 2.       Job Observes That Man Cannot Discover
  Wisdom............... 281-28
• Job 2820 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is
  the place of understanding?
• Job 2821 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all
  living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.
  
• Job 2823 God understandeth the way thereof, and
  he knoweth the place thereof.
• Job 2824 For he looketh to the ends of the
  earth, and seeth under the whole heaven
• Job 2828 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear
  of the Lord, that is wisdom and to depart from
  evil is understanding.

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IV. The Final Defense of Job 271-3140

• B.  Job's Second Monologue     291-3140
• 1.       Job Remembers His Happy Past . . 291-25
• Job 291 Moreover Job continued his parable, and
  said,
• Job 292 Oh that I were as in months past, as in
  the days when God preserved me
• Job 2914 I put on righteousness, and it clothed
  me my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
• Job 2921 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and
  kept silence at my counsel.
• 2.       Job Describes His Present
  Humiliation............... 301-31
• Job 301 But now they that are younger than I
  have me in derision, whose fathers I would have
  disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
• Job 3019 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am
  become like dust and ashes.
• Job 3020 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear
  me I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
• Job 3021 Thou art become cruel to me with thy
  strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
• 3.       Job Defends His Innocency    311-34
• a.  Innocent of Sensual Sins    311-12
• Job 311 I made a covenant with mine eyes why
  then should I think upon a maid?
• Job 316 Let me be weighed in an even balance,
  that God may know mine integrity.
• b.  Innocent of Abusing His Power..........
  3113-23
• Job 3119 If I have seen any perish for want of
  clothing, or any poor without covering
• Job 3122 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder
  blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.
• c.  Innocent of Trusting in His Wealth..........
  3124-28

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V. The Solution of Elihu 321-3724

• A.  Elihu Intervenes in the Debate     321-22
• Job 321 So these three men ceased to answer Job,
  because he was righteous in his own eyes.
• Job 322 Then was kindled the wrath of Elihu the
  son of Barachel the Buzite, of the kindred of
  Ram against Job was his wrath kindled, because
  he justified himself rather than God.
• Job 323 Also against his three friends was his
  wrath kindled, because they had found no answer,
  and yet had condemned Job.
• Job 326 And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite
  answered and said, I am young, and ye are very
  old wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew
  you mine opinion.
• Job 328 But there is a spirit in man and the
  inspiration of the Almighty giveth them
  understanding.
• Job 3218 For I am full of matter, the spirit
  within me constraineth me.
• Job 3219 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath
  no vent it is ready to burst like new bottles.

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V. The Solution of Elihu 321-3724

• B.  Elihu's First Rebuttal     331-33
• 1.       Elihu Challenges Job to Debate    331-7
• Job 331 Wherefore, Job, I pray thee, hear my
  speeches, and hearken to all my words.
• Job 334 The Spirit of God hath made me, and the
  breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
• Job 337 Behold, my terror shall not make thee
  afraid, neither shall my hand be heavy upon thee.
  
• 2.       Elihu Quotes Job's Complaints    338-11
• Job 338 Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing,
  and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,
• Job 339 I am clean without transgression, I am
  innocent neither is there iniquity in me.
• Job 3310 Behold, he findeth occasions against
  me, he counteth me for his enemy,
• 3.       Elihu Answers Job's Complaints  
  3312-33
• Job 3312 Behold, in this thou art not just I
  will answer thee, that God is greater than man.
• Job 3313 Why dost thou strive against him? for
  he giveth not account of any of his matters.
• Job 3327 He looketh upon men, and if any say, I
  have sinned, and perverted that which was right,
  and it profited me not
• Job 3328 He will deliver his soul from going
  into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

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V. The Solution of Elihu 321-3724

• C.  Elihu's Second Rebuttal. .     .. 341-37
• 1.       Elihu Challenges Job to Debate
  Again..................... 341-4
• Job 341 Furthermore Elihu answered and said,
• Job 344 Let us choose to us judgment let us
  know among ourselves what is good.
• 2.       Elihu Quotes Job's Complaints    345-9
• Job 345 For Job hath said, I am righteous and
  God hath taken away my judgment.
• Job 349 For he hath said, It profiteth a man
  nothing that he should delight himself with God.
• 3.       Elihu Answers Job's Complaints  
  3410-37
• Job 3410 Therefore hearken unto me, ye men of
  understanding far be it from God, that he should
  do wickedness and from the Almighty, that he
  should commit iniquity.
• Job 3434 Let men of understanding tell me, and
  let a wise man hearken unto me.
• Job 3435 Job hath spoken without knowledge, and
  his words were without wisdom.
• Job 3437 For he addeth rebellion unto his sin,
  he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth
  his words against God.

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V. The Solution of Elihu 321-3724

• D.  Elihu's Third Rebuttal     351-16
• Job 351 Elihu spake moreover, and said,
• Job 352 Thinkest thou this to be right, that
  thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God's?
  
• Job 3513 Surely God will not hear vanity,
  neither will the Almighty regard it.
• Job 3514 Although thou sayest thou shalt not see
  him, yet judgment is before him therefore trust
  thou in him.

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V. The Solution of Elihu 321-3724

• E.  Elihu's Conclusion     361-3724
• 1.       Elihu Believes That God Is Disciplining
  Job..................... 361-21
• Job 361 Elihu also proceeded, and said,
• Job 362 Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee
  that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.
• Job 366 He preserveth not the life of the
  wicked but giveth right to the poor.
• Job 3610 He openeth also their ear to
  discipline, and commandeth that they return from
  iniquity.
• Job 3611 If they obey and serve him, they shall
  spend their days in prosperity, and their years
  in pleasures.
• 2.       Elihu Reminds Job of the Greatness of
  God . .                      . . 3622-3724
• Job 3622 Behold, God exalteth by his power who
  teacheth like him?
• Job 3626 Behold, God is great, and we know him
  not, neither can the number of his years be
  searched out.
• Job 3714 Hearken unto this, O Job stand still,
  and consider the wondrous works of God.
• Job 3723 Touching the Almighty, we cannot find
  him out he is excellent in power, and in
  judgment, and in plenty of justice he will not
  afflict.

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Part Three The Deliverance of Job (381-4217)

• The Deliverance of Job (3842) After Elihu's
  preparatory discourse, God Himself ends the
  debate by speaking to Job from the whirlwind. In
  His first speech God reveals His power and wisdom
  as Creator and Preserver of the physical and
  animal world. Job responds by acknowledging his
  own ignorance and insignificance he can offer no
  rebuttal (403-5). In His second speech God
  reveals His sovereign authority and challenges
  Job with two illustrations of His power to
  control the uncontrollable. This time Job
  responds by acknowledging his error with a
  repentant heart (421-6). If Job cannot
  understand God's ways in the realm of nature, how
  then can he understand God's ways in the
  spiritual realm? God makes no reference to Job's
  personal sufferings, and hardly touches on the
  real issue of the debate. However, Job catches a
  glimpse of the divine perspective and when he
  acknowledges God's sovereignty over his life, his
  worldly goods are restored twofold. Job prays for
  his three friends who have cut him so deeply, but
  Elihu's speech is never rebuked. Thus, Satan's
  challenge becomes God's opportunity to build up
  Job's life. "Behold, we count them happy which
  endured. Ye have heard of the patience of Job,
  and have seen the end of the Lord that the Lord
  is very pitiful, and of tender mercy" (James
  511 see James 112).

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I. The First Controversy of God with Job
381-405

• A.  God's First Challenge to Job     381-402
• 1.  God Questions Job from the Realm of
  Creation................ 381-38
• Job 381 Then the LORD answered Job out of the
  whirlwind, and said,
• Job 382 Who is this that darkeneth counsel by
  words without knowledge?
• Job 383 Gird up now thy loins like a man for I
  will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
• Job 384 Where wast thou when I laid the
  foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast
  understanding.
• Job 3817 Have the gates of death been opened
  unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the
  shadow of death?
• Job 3819 Where is the way where light dwelleth?
  and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,
• Job 3833 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven?
  canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?
  
• Job 3836 Who hath put wisdom in the inward
  parts? or who hath given understanding to the
  heart?
• 2.  God Questions Job from the Realm of
  Animals................ 3839-3930
• Job 3841 Who provideth for the raven his food?
  when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for
  lack of meat.
• Job 3926 Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and
  stretch her wings toward the south?
• Job 3927 Doth the eagle mount up at thy command,
  and make her nest on high?
• 3.  God Demands an Answer to His
  Questions................ 401, 2
• Job 401 Moreover the LORD answered Job, and
  said,
• Job 402 Shall he that contendeth with the
  Almighty instruct him? he that reproveth God, let
  him answer it.

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I. The First Controversy of God with Job
381-405

• B.  Job's First Answer to God     403-5
• Job 403 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
• Job 404 Behold, I am vile what shall I answer
  thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
• Job 405 Once have I spoken but I will not
  answer yea, twice but I will proceed no
  further.

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II. The Second Controversy of God with Job
406-426

• A.  God's Second Challenge to Job. . 406-4134
• 1.       God Tells Job to Save Himself . . .
  406-14
• Job 406 Then answered the LORD unto Job out of
  the whirlwind, and said,
• Job 407 Gird up thy loins now like a man I will
  demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
• Job 408 Wilt thou also disannul my judgment?
  wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be
  righteous?
• Job 409 Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou
  thunder with a voice like him?
• Job 4014 Then will I also confess unto thee that
  thine own right hand can save thee.
• 2.       God Compares the Power of Job with That
  of the Behemoth............... 4015-24
• Job 4015 Behold now behemoth, which I made with
  thee he eateth grass as an ox.
• Job 4019 He is the chief of the ways of God he
  that made him can make his sword to approach unto
  him.
• 3.  God Compares the Power of Job with That of
  the Leviathan............... 411-34
• Job 411 Canst thou draw out leviathan with an
  hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou
  lettest down?
• Job 4110 None is so fierce that dare stir him
  up who then is able to stand before me?

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II. The Second Controversy of God with Job
406-426

• B.  Job's Second Answer to God     421-6
• 1.  Job Confesses Lack of Understanding...........
  .... 421-3
• Job 421 Then Job answered the LORD, and said,
• Job 422 I know that thou canst do every thing,
  and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
• Job 423 Who is he that hideth counsel without
  knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I
  understood not things too wonderful for me,
  which I knew not.
• 2.  Job Repents of His Rebellion    424-6
• Job 424 Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak
  I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.
• Job 425 I have heard of thee by the hearing of
  the ear but now mine eye seeth thee.
• Job 426 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in
  dust and ashes.

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III. The Deliverance of Job and His Friends
427-17

• Job 427 And it was so, that after the LORD had
  spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to
  Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against
  thee, and against thy two friends for ye have
  not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my
  servant Job hath.
• Job 428 Therefore take unto you now seven
  bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant
  Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt
  offering and my servant Job shall pray for you
  for him will I accept lest I deal with you after
  your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the
  thing which is right, like my servant Job.
• Job 4210 And the LORD turned the captivity of
  Job, when he prayed for his friends also the
  LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
• Job 4216 After this lived Job an hundred and
  forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons'
  sons, even four generations.
• Job 4217 So Job died, being old and full of
  days.