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Bible Commentaries
Scofield's Reference Notes Scofield's Notes
Job's Righteousness; His Severe Testing by Satan.Chapter 2
Satan Attacks Job's Health; Friends Arrive.Chapter 3
Job Curses His Birth, Laments His Suffering.Chapter 4
Eliphaz's First Speech: Job Must Have Sinned.Chapter 5
Eliphaz: Seek God, Who Disciplines but Heals.Chapter 6
Job's Reply: My Suffering Is Just.Chapter 7
Job Laments the Futility of Life.Chapter 8
Bildad's First Speech: Job, Repent for Restoration.Chapter 9
Job: God's Wisdom and Power Are Unfathomable.Chapter 11
Zophar's First Speech: Job Deserves Worse Punishment.Chapter 14
Job: Man's Life Is Brief and Full of Trouble.Chapter 15
Eliphaz's Second Speech: Job's Words Are Arrogant.Chapter 17
Job: My Spirit Is Broken; Hope Seems Distant.Chapter 19
Job: My Redeemer Lives; Friends, You Have Wronged Me.Chapter 21
Job: Why Do the Wicked Often Prosper?Chapter 22
Eliphaz's Third Speech: Repent, and God Will Restore You.Chapter 24
Job: The Wicked Seem to Escape Judgment.Chapter 26
Job: God's Power and Wisdom Are Incomparable.Chapter 27
Job: I Will Maintain My Integrity Despite Suffering.Chapter 28
Job: The Search for Wisdom Is Beyond Human Reach.Chapter 32
Elihu's Anger; He Begins to Speak.Chapter 38
God's Response: Questions Reveal Job's Limited Understanding.Chapter 39
God Continues: Wonders of Creation Highlight Divine Wisdom.Chapter 40
Job Humbles Himself; God Challenges Him Further.Chapter 41
God Describes Leviathan; Emphasizes His Power.Chapter 42
Job Repents; God Restores His Fortunes.
- Job
by C.I. Scofield
Book Introduction - Job
Job 1:1
Job is in form a dramatic poem. It is probably the oldest of the Bible books, and was certainly written before the giving of the law. It would have been impossible, in a discussion covering the whole field of sin, of the providential government of God, and man's relation to Him, to avoid all reference to the law if the law had then been known. Job was a veritable personage (Ezekiel 14:20; James 5:11), and the events are historical. The book sheds a remarkable light on the philosophic breadth and intellectual culture of the patriarchal age. The problem is, Why do the godly suffer?
Job is in seven parts: Prologue, Job 1:1-8. Job and his wife, Job 2:9,Job 2:10. Job and his three friends, Job 2:11-40. Job and Elihu, Job 32:1-24. Jehovah and Job, Job 38:1-34. Job's final answer, Job 42:1-6. Epilogue, Job 42:7-17.
The events recorded in Job cover a period within 1 year.
