Job

Contents

Job 1

• A blameless man in the land of Uz
• Four messengers in a single day

Job 2

• Skin for skin

Job 3

• Job curses the day he was born
• Why did I not die at birth?

Job 4

• Eliphaz: what innocent man ever perished?
• A word came to me in stealth

Job 5

• I would lay my case before God

Job 6

• Job: weigh my vexation on the scales
• You are a wadi that runs dry

Job 7

• The days of a hired man
• Am I the Sea, or the Dragon?

Job 8

• Bildad: ask the generation that came before
• Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh?

Job 9

• Job: how can a mortal be in the right against God?
• He destroys the blameless and the wicked alike
• There is no arbiter between us

Job 10

• Your hands shaped me, and you swallow me up
• You hunt me like a lion

Job 11

• Zophar: Eloah lets you off part of your guilt

Job 12

• Job: wisdom will die with you
• With him are wisdom and might

Job 13

• Worthless physicians, every one of you
• Why do you hide your face?

Job 14

• A man born of woman
• If a man dies, will he live again?

Job 15

• Eliphaz: were you the first man born?
• What I have seen I will recount

Job 16

• Job: comforters of misery
• My witness is in heaven

Job 17

• Sheol is my house

Job 18

• Bildad: the light of the wicked goes out

Job 19

• Job: Eloah has bent me out of true
• Everyone I loved has turned away
• I know: my redeemer lives

Job 20

• Zophar: the joy of the godless lasts a moment
• The heavens uncover his guilt

Job 21

• Job: why do the wicked go on living?
• How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?

Job 22

• Eliphaz: is your evil not great?
• Come to terms with him and be at peace

Job 23

• Job: if only I knew where to find him
• He is one, and who can turn him back?

Job 24

• Job: why does the Almighty keep no assizes?
• Those who rebel against the light

Job 25

• Bildad: how can a mortal be righteous?

Job 26

• Job: what a help you have been

Job 27

• Job’s oath: until I die
• The portion of a wicked man

Job 28

• There is a source for silver
• But wisdom: where is it found?
• God understands the way to it

Job 29

• Job: if only I were as I was
• I sat as chief among them

Job 30

• And now they laugh at me
• And now my soul pours itself out
• I hoped for good, and evil came

Job 31

• A covenant with my eyes
• If I have shut my door on the poor
• Here is my mark: let the Almighty answer me

Job 32

• Elihu, the young man who could not keep still
• Not one of you answered him

Job 33

• Elihu: I too was pinched off from clay
• God speaks, and no one sees it
• I have found a ransom

Job 34

• Elihu: far be it from God to do wrong
• Can one who hates justice govern?
• Is he to pay out on your terms?

Job 35

• Elihu: what do you give him if you are righteous?
• They cry out, and no one asks where their Maker is

Job 36

• Elihu: there are still words to speak for Eloah
• He rescues the afflicted by his affliction
• God is great, beyond our knowing

Job 37

• The thunder that makes my heart leap
• Stand still and consider the wonders of God

Job 38

• Yahweh answers Job out of the whirlwind
• Have you ever commanded the morning?
• The storehouses of the snow and the hail
• Can you tie the cords of the Pleiades?
• Who hunts for the lioness and the raven?

Job 39

• Who watches the wild things give birth?
• The ostrich, who forgot wisdom
• The horse who laughs at fear

Job 40

• Job puts his hand over his mouth
• Have you an arm like God’s?
• Behemoth, which I made along with you
• Can you pull Leviathan out with a hook?

Job 41

• No one is fierce enough to rouse him
• Fire out of his mouth, smoke from his nostrils
• Iron he counts as straw

Job 42

• Now my eye has seen you
• Yahweh speaks to Eliphaz
• Yahweh restores what Job had lost