Job chapter 1 |
Job 1:1-5. |
The holiness, riches, and religious care of Job for his children. |
Job 1:6-12. |
Satan, appearing before God, by calumniation obtains leave to afflict Job. |
Job 1:13-22. |
Understanding of the loss of his children and goods, in his mourning he blesses God. |
Job chapter 2 |
Job 2:1-6. |
Satan appearing again before God, obtains further leave to tempt Job. |
Job 2:7-8. |
He smites him with sore boils. |
Job 2:9-10. |
Job reproves his wife, who moved him to curse God. |
Job 2:11-13. |
His three friends console with him in silence. |
Job chapter 3 |
Job 3:1-12. |
Job curses the day and services of his birth. |
Job 3:13-19. |
The ease of death. |
Job 3:20-26. |
He complains of life, because of his anguish. |
Job chapter 4 |
Job 4:1-6. |
Eliphaz reproves Job for want of religion. |
Job 4:7-11. |
He teaches God's judgments to be not for the righteous, but for the wicked. |
Job 4:12-21. |
His fearful vision to humble the excellency of creatures before God. |
Job chapter 5 |
Job 5:1-5. |
Eliphaz shews that the end of the wicked is misery; |
Job 5:6-7. |
that man is born to trouble; |
Job 5:8-16. |
that God is to be regarded in affliction; |
Job 5:17-27. |
the happy end of God's correction. |
Job chapter 6 |
Job 6:1-7. |
Job shews that his complaints are not causeless. |
Job 6:8-13. |
He wishes for death, wherein he is assured of comfort. |
Job 6:14-30. |
He reproves his friends of unkindness. |
Job chapter 7 |
Job 7:1-11. |
Job excuses his desire of death. |
Job 7:12-21. |
He complains of his own restlessness, and expostulates with God. |
Job chapter 8 |
Job 8:1-7. |
Bildad shews God's justice in dealing with men according to their works. |
Job 8:8-19. |
He alleges antiquity to prove the certain destruction of the hypocrite. |
Job 8:20-22. |
He applies God's just dealing to Job. |
Job chapter 9 |
Job 9:1-21. |
Job acknowledges God's justice. |
Job 9:22-35. |
Man's innocency is not to be condemned by afflictions. |
Job chapter 10 |
Job 10:1-17. |
Job, taking liberty of complaint, expostulates with God about his afflictions. |
Job 10:18-22. |
He complains of life, and craves a little ease before death. |
Job chapter 11 |
Job 11:1-4. |
Zophar reproves Job for justifying himself. |
Job 11:5-12. |
God's wisdom is unsearchable. |
Job 11:13-20. |
The assured blessing of repentance. |
Job chapter 12 |
Job 12:1-6. |
Job maintains himself against his friends that reprove him. |
Job 12:7-25. |
He acknowledges the general doctrine of God's omnipotence. |
Job chapter 13 |
Job 13:1-13. |
Job reproves his friends for partiality. |
Job 13:14-28. |
He professes his confidence in God; and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him. |
Job chapter 14 |
Job 14:1-6. |
Job entreats God for favour, by the shortness of life, and certainty of death. |
Job 14:7-15. |
He waits for his change. |
Job 14:16-22. |
By sin the creature is subject to corruption. |
Job chapter 15 |
Job 15:1-16. |
Eliphaz reproves Job for impiety in justifying himself. |
Job 15:17-35. |
He proves by tradition the unquietness of wicked men. |
Job chapter 16 |
Job 16:1-16. |
Job reproves his friends for unmercifulness. |
Job 16:17-22. |
He maintains his innocency. |
Job chapter 17 |
Job 17:1-5. |
Job appeals from men to God. |
Job 17:6-10. |
The unmerciful dealing of men with the afflicted may astonish, but not discourage the righteous. |
Job 17:11-16. |
His hope is not in life, but in death. |
Job chapter 18 |
Job 18:1-4. |
Bildad reproves Job for presumption and impatience. |
Job 18:5-21. |
The calamities of the wicked. |
Job chapter 19 |
Job 19:1-20. |
Job, complaining of his friends' cruelty, shews there is misery enough in him to feed their cruelty. |
Job 19:21-22. |
He craves pity. |
Job 19:23-29. |
He believes the resurrection. |
Job chapter 20 |
Job 20:1-29. |
Zophar shews the state and portion of the wicked. |
Job chapter 21 |
Job 21:1-6. |
Job shews that even in the judgment of man he has reason to be grieved. |
Job 21:7-15. |
Sometimes the wicked prosper, though they despise God. |
Job 21:16-20. |
Sometimes their destruction is manifest. |
Job 21:21-26. |
The happy and unhappy are alike in death. |
Job 21:27-34. |
The judgment of the wicked is in another world. |
Job chapter 22 |
Job 22:1-4. |
Eliphaz shews that man's goodness profits not God. |
Job 22:5-20. |
He accuses Job of divers sins. |
Job 22:21-30. |
He exhorts him to repentance, with promises of mercy. |
Job chapter 23 |
Job 23:1-5. |
Job longs to appear before God, |
Job 23:6-7. |
in confidence of his mercy. |
Job 23:8-10. |
God, who is invisible, observes our ways. |
Job 23:11-12. |
Job's innocency. |
Job 23:13-17. |
God's decree is immutable. |
Job chapter 24 |
Job 24:1-16. |
Wickedness often goes unpunished. |
Job 24:17-25. |
There is a secret judgment for the wicked. |
Job chapter 25 |
Job 25:1-6. |
Bildad shews that man cannot be justified before God. |
Job chapter 26 |
Job 26:1-4. |
Job, reproving the uncharitable spirit of Bildad, |
Job 26:5-14. |
acknowledges the power of God to be infinite and unsearchable. |
Job chapter 27 |
Job 27:1-7. |
Job protests his sincerity. |
Job 27:8-10. |
The hypocrite is without hope. |
Job 27:11-23. |
The blessings which the wicked have are turned into curses. |
Job chapter 28 |
Job 28:1-11. |
There is a knowledge of natural things. |
Job 28:12-28. |
But wisdom is an excellent gift of God. |
Job chapter 29 |
Job 29:1-25. |
Job bemoans his former prosperity. |
Job chapter 30 |
Job 30:1-14. |
Job's honour is turned into extreme contempt; |
Job 30:15-31. |
and his prosperity into calamity. |
Job chapter 31 |
Job 31:1-40. |
Job makes a solemn protestation of his integrity in several duties. |
Job chapter 32 |
Job 32:1-5. |
Elihu is angry with Job and his three friends. |
Job 32:6-10. |
Because wisdom comes not from age, he excuses the boldness of his youth. |
Job 32:11-15. |
He reproves them for not satisfying Job. |
Job 32:16-22. |
His zeal to speak. |
Job chapter 33 |
Job 33:1-7. |
Elihu offers himself instead of God to reason with Job. |
Job 33:8-13. |
He excuses God from giving man an account of his ways, by his greatness. |
Job 33:14-30. |
God calls man to repentance by visions, by afflictions, and by his ministry. |
Job 33:31-33. |
He incites Job to attention. |
Job chapter 34 |
Job 34:1-9. |
Elihu accuses Job for charging God with injustice. |
Job 34:10-30. |
God omnipotent cannot be unjust. |
Job 34:31-33. |
Man must humble himself unto God. |
Job 34:34-37. |
Elihu reproves Job. |
Job chapter 35 |
Job 35:1-8. |
Comparison is not to be made with God, because our good or evil cannot extend unto him. |
Job 35:9-16. |
Many cry in their afflictions, but are not heard for want of faith. |
Job chapter 36 |
Job 36:1-15. |
Elihu shews how God is just in his ways. |
Job 36:16-23. |
How Job's sins hinder God's blessings. |
Job 36:24-33. |
God's works are to be magnified. |
Job chapter 37 |
Job 37:1-14. |
God is to be feared because of his great works. |
Job 37:15-24. |
His wisdom is unsearchable in them. |
Job chapter 38 |
Job 38:1-3. |
God challenges Job to answer. |
Job 38:4-30. |
God, by his mighty works, convinces Job of ignorance, |
Job 38:31-41. |
and of imbecility. |
Job chapter 39 |
Job 39:1-4. |
Of the wild goats and hinds. |
Job 39:5-8. |
Of the wild ass. |
Job 39:9-12. |
The unicorn. |
Job 39:13-18. |
The peacock, stork, and ostrich. |
Job 39:19-25. |
The horse. |
Job 39:26. |
The hawk. |
Job 39:27-30. |
The eagle. |
Job chapter 40 |
Job 40:1-5. |
Job humbles himself to God. |
Job 40:6-15. |
God stirs him up to shew his righteousness, power, and wisdom. |
Job 40:16-24. |
Of the behemoth. |
Job chapter 41 |
Job 41:1-34. |
Of God's great power in the leviathan. |
Job chapter 42 |
Job 42:1-6. |
Job submits himself unto God. |
Job 42:7-9. |
God, preferring Job's cause, makes his friends submit themselves, and accepts him. |
Job 42:10-15. |
He magnifies and blesses Job. |
Job 42:16-17. |
Job's age and death. |