1 Job's uprightness, family, wealth, and religious concern for his children. 6 Satan appeareth before God, falsely accuseth Job, and obtaineth leave to tempt him. 13 Job, receiving successive accounts of the calamities that deprived him of all his substance and his children, in his mourning blesseth God.
1 Satan appeareth again before God, and is allowed to make further trial of Job. 7 He smiteth him with sore boils from head to foot. 9 Job rebuketh his wife, who moved him to curse God. 11 Three of his friends visit him, and condole with him in silence.
1 Job curseth the day of his birth, 11 and wisheth he had never been roused out of the quiet sleep of the grave: 20 he complaineth of life because of his anguish.
1 Eliphaz reproveth Job for want of religious trust: 7 he remindeth him that God's judgments are not for the righteous, but for the wicked. 12 His fearful vision, designed to humble the vain opinion of man's excellency in the sight of his Maker.
1 Eliphaz proceedeth to shew that the end of the wicked is certain misery: 6 that man is born to trouble: 8 that God should be sought to in time of affliction. 17 The happy end of God's correction.
1 Job sheweth that his complaints are not causeless: 8 he wisheth for death, wherein he is assured of comfort: 14 he reproveth his friends of unkindness.
1 Job excuseth his desire of death by representing the extreme restlessness of his condition: 17 he expostulateth with God for so severely visiting him.
1 Bildad sheweth God's justice in dealing with men according to their works: 8 he appealeth to antiquity to prove the certain destruction of the hypocrite: 20 he applieth the argument of God's just dealing to the case of Job.
1 Job acknowledgeth God's justice, wisdom, and power, against which there is no contending: 14 he disclaimeth all thought of justifying himself; 20 but insisteth that a man's innocency is not to be judged by the good or evil that befalls him in this world: 25 he bringeth evidence of his own misfortunes, but will not presume to dispute with the author of them, who is so much above him.
1 Embittered by his sufferings Job taketh more liberty in expostulating with God. 18 He repineth at having been brought into being, and prayeth for a little respite from pain before his death.
1 Zophar sharply reproveth Job for justifying himself: 7 he sheweth that God's counsels are unsearchable; 13 and that repentance is the only sure way for him to recover lost happiness.
1 Job censureth the arrogant pretensions of his friends to superior knowledge: 6 he sheweth that wicked men often prosper under the hand of God; 13 he acknowledgeth the divine wisdom and omnipotency.
1 Job reproveth his friends of false reasoning and partiality: 14 though unable to account for his own afflictions, he professeth his confidence in God: 20 he entreateth to know his sins, and the cause of his affliction.
1 Job entreateth God's forbearance in respect of the shortness and troubles of life, 5 and of the certainty of death, which cutteth short man's hope: 13 he wisheth for some place of shelter, where to wait his appointed change. 18 All created beings are subject to corruption.
1 Eliphaz reproveth Job of impiety in justifying himself: 17 he proveth from tradition the disquietude of wicked men.
1 Job reproveth his friends of inhumanity toward him: 7 he pathetically describeth his unhappy case; 17 still protesting his innocence, for which he maketh appeal to God.
1 Job again appealeth to God from the harsh censures of his friends: 6 whose unmerciful dealing may astonish, but not discourage the righteous. 11 His hope is no longer in life, but in death.
1 Bildad reproveth Job of presumption and impatience: 5 he enlargeth on the inevitable calamities of the wicked.
1 Job, complaining of the repeated cruelty of his friends, sheweth that he hath misery enough to gratify it: 21 he calleth for pity; 23 professeth his belief of a future resurrection; 28 and warneth his friends not to persecute him.
1 Zophar sheweth in his turn the certain downfall and portion of the wicked.
1 Job desireth to be patiently heard because of his strange calamities: 7 he sheweth that wicked men sometimes do so prosper, that they are tempted to forget God: 16 though at other times their destruction is manifest. 23 The happy and unhappy are alike in death. 27 The judgment of the wicked is in another world.
1 Eliphaz sheweth that man's goodness profiteth not God: 5 he accuseth Job of various sins, to which he imputeth his calamities: 15 he bringeth evidence of the example of wicked men to shew that God's judgments at length overtake them: 21 and exhorteth Job to repentance with promises of mercy.
1 Job longeth to appear before God, 6 in confidence of being heard with mercy, and acquitted. 8 God, though invisible, observeth our ways. 11 Job asserteth his own integrity; 13 but the immutable counsel of God troubleth him.
1 Job sheweth that wicked men often go unpunished, and die as all other men.
1 Bildad asserteth the sovereignty of God, before whom man cannot be justified.
1 Job reproveth Bildad; 5 but acknowledgeth God's power and wisdom to be infinite and unsearchable.
1 Job protesteth his sincerity, and resolution to assert his innocence to the last, 8 seeing that the hypocrite is without hope: 11 he admitteth that even the blessings which the wicked possess are sometimes turned into curses.
1 Job sheweth that although man may by his industry search deep into nature, 12 yet is the wisdom and understanding of God's ways beyond his reach, 23 being comprehended by God only. 28 Man's wisdom is to fear God and to depart from evil.
1 Job calleth to mind his former prosperity and honour, and the worthy use he had made of it.
1 Job lamenteth the change of his honour into extreme contempt; 15 and of his prosperity into the deepest distress.
Job maketh a solemn protestation of his integrity in several duties.
1 Elihu is angry with Job and his three friends. 6 He excuseth the boldness of his youth, because wisdom doth not always come from age: 11 he complaineth of the weak reasonings of those, who, instead of confuting Job, had been silenced by him: 16 he sheweth his own zeal to speak, 21 which he professeth to do without respect of person.
1 Elihu offereth himself instead of God to reason with Job in sincerity without terrifying him: 8 he blameth him for insisting so much upon his innocence, and for his complaints against God, who is not accountable to man for his doings. 14 God instructeth and calleth man to repentance by night visions, 19 by afflictions, 23 and by the agency of his ministers. 31 Elihu demandeth Job's further attention.
1 Elihu chargeth Job with calling to account God's justice; 10 whose sovereign perfections suffer him not to be unjust. 31 Man ought to humble himself before God. 34 Job is blamed for his rash discourses.
1 Elihu again reproveth Job of setting up his own righteousness against God's, between whom and man there is no comparison. 6 The good or evil actions of men extend not to God. 9 If God heareth not the cry of the afflicted, it is because they address him not as they ought. 14 The application of this doctrine to the case of Job.
1 Elihu proceedeth to shew that God is just in all his ways. 8 The end of God's chastisements, and the happiness of making a right use of them. 12 The danger of not profiting by them. 16 God's mercy hindered by Job's offence: 18 he is exhorted to repentance. 22 God's power uncontrollable. 24 His works are to be magnified, but cannot be comprehended.
1 God is terrible in his great works: 15 his wisdom is unsearchable in them: 23 the excellence of his perfections ought to impress men with lowly fear.
1 God out of the whirlwind challengeth Job to answer; 4 and by an enumeration of his mighty works convinceth Job of ignorance, 31 and of weakness.
God proceedeth to shew his own power, and man's weakness and ignorance, by instances from the animal creation: 1 of the wild goats and hinds; &c.
1 God challengeth an answer. 3 Job humbleth himself. 6 God calleth upon Job to shew by instances of power that he is able to save himself. 15 God's great power is seen in the behemoth.
God's great power seen in the leviathan.
1 Job submitteth himself unto God. 7 God preferreth Job's cause, and maketh his three friends submit themselves to him. 9 He accepteth Job, and doubleth his blessings upon him. 13 Job's children. 16 His age and death.