- Here's a brief overview of how Job is put together...
- I. Prologue 1:1 - 2:10
- A. Setting the scene (1:1-5)
- B. The heavenly council (1:6-12)
- C. The satan’s trial (1:13-21) [22 narrator]
- D. The stakes are raised (2:1-6)
- E. The satan’s second trial (2:7-10b) [10c narrator]
- F. The three friends (transition to the dialogues; 2:11-13)
- II. Dialogues with "friends" 3:1 - 42:6
- A Job’s opening soliloquy (3:1-26)
- B. Dialogs with "friends" (4:1-27:23)
1.First cycle (4:1-14:22)
a. Eliphaz speaks (4:1-5:27), Job responds (6:1-7:21)
b. Bildad speaks (8:1-22), Job responds (9:1-10:22)
c. Zophor speaks (11:1-20), Job responds (12:1-14:22)
2. Second cycle (15:1-21:34)
a. Eliphaz speaks (15:1-35), Job responds (16:1-17:16)
b. Bildad speaks (18:1-21), Job responds (19:1-29)
c. Zophor speaks (20:1-29), Job responds (21:1-34)
3. Third cycle (22:1-27:23)
a. Eliphaz speaks (22:1-30), Job responds (23:1-24:25)
b. Bildad speaks (25:1-6), Job responds (26:1-27:23) - III. Monologues 28:1 - 37:24
- A. The inaccessibility of Wisdom (28:1-28)
- B. Job’s concluding soliloquy (29:1-31:40)
- C. The speeches of Elihu (32:1-37:24)
- IV. Dialogue with God 38:1 - 42:6
- A. God speaks (38:1-40-2), Job responds (40:3-5)
- B. God speaks again (40:6-41:34), Job’s second response (42:1-6)
- V. Epilogue 42:7-17
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