Job #catechesis/bible/job
Old Testament · Wisdom Books · part of Old Testament → Bible
Chapters
- Job 1 — Job’s virtue and riches. Satan by permission from God strips him of all his substance. His patience.
- Job 2 — Satan, by God’s permission, strikes Job with ulcers from head to foot: his patience is still invincible.
- Job 3 — Job expresses his sense of the miseries of man’s life, by cursing the day of his birth.
- Job 4 — Eliphas charges Job with impatience, and pretends that God never afflicts the innocent.
- Job 5 — Eliphaz proceeds in his charge, and exhorts Job to acknowledge his sins.
- Job 6 — Job maintains his innocence, and complains of his friends.
- Job 7 — Job declares the miseries of man’s life: and addresses himself to God.
- Job 8 — Baldad, under pretence of defending the justice of God, accuses Job, and exhorts him to return to God.
- Job 9 — Job acknowledges God’s justice: although he often afflicts the innocent.
- Job 10 — Job laments his afflictions and begs to be delivered.
- Job 11 — Sophar reproves Job, for justifying himself, and invites him to repentance.
- Job 12 — Job’s reply to Sophar. He extols God’s power and wisdom.
- Job 13 — Job persists in maintaining his innocence: and reproves his friends.
- Job 14 — Job declares the shortness of man’s days: and professes his belief of a resurrection.
- Job 15 — Eliphaz returns to the charge against Job, and describes the wretched state of the wicked.
- Job 16 — Job expostulates with his friends: and appeals to the judgment of God.
- Job 17 — Job’s hope in God: he expects rest in death.
- Job 18 — Baldad again reproves Job and describes the miseries of the wicked.
- Job 19 — Job complains of the cruelty of his friends; he describes his own sufferings: and his belief of a future resurrection.
- Job 20 — Sophar declares the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked: and their sudden downfall.
- Job 21 — Job shows that the wicked often prosper in this world, even to the end of their life: but that their judgment is in another world.
- Job 22 — Eliphaz falsely imputes many crimes to Job, but promises him prosperity if he will repent.
- Job 23 — Job wishes to be tried at God’s tribunal.
- Job 24 — God’s providence often allows the wicked to go on a long time in their sins: but punishes them in another life.
- Job 25 — God’s providence often allows the wicked to go on a long time in their sins: but punishes them in another life.
- Job 26 — Job declares his sentiments of the wisdom and power of God.
- Job 27 — Job persists in asserting his own innocence, and that hypocrites will be punished in the end.
- Job 28 — Man’s industry searches out many things: true wisdom is taught by God alone.
- Job 29 — Job relates his former happiness, and the respect that all men showed him.
- Job 30 — Job shows the wonderful change of his temporal estate, from welfare to great calamity.
- Job 31 — Job, to defend himself from the unjust judgments of his friends, gives a sincere account of his own virtues.
- Job 32 — Eliu is angry with Job and his friends. He boasts of himself.
- Job 33 — Eliu blames Job for asserting his own innocence.
- Job 34 — Eliu charges Job with blasphemy: and sets forth the power and justice of God.
- Job 35 — Eliu declares that the good or evil done by man cannot reach God.
- Job 36 — Eliu proceeds in setting forth the justice and power of God.
- Job 37 — Eliu goes on in his discourse, showing God’s wisdom and power, by his wonderful works.
- Job 38 — God interposes and shows from the things he has made, that man cannot comprehend his power and wisdom.
- Job 39 — The wonders of the power and providence of God in many of his creatures.
- Job 40 — Of the power of God in the behemoth and the leviathan.
- Job 41 — A further description of the leviathan.
- Job 42 — Job submits himself. God pronounces in his favour. Job offers sacrifice for his friends. He is blessed with riches and children, and dies happily,
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