outline of Job

1.  Prologue (1:1-2:13)

1. Job Blessed and Blameless (1:1-5)
2. Job Tested (1:6-2:13)

1.  Satan Accuses Job (1:6-12)
2.  Job's Commitment Despite Tragedy (1:13-22)
3.  Satan Accuses Job Again (2:1-6)
4.  Job's Faith Despite Personal Suffering (2:7-10)
5.  The Arrival of the Counselors (2:11-13)

2.  Dialogue (chs. 3-27)

1. Job Laments his Birth (ch. 3)
2. The First Cycle of Speeches (chs. 4-14)

1.  Eliphaz (chs. 4; 5)
2.  Job's Reply (chs. 6, 7)
3.  Bildad (ch. 8)
4.  Job's Reply (chs. 9; 10)
5.  Zophar (ch. 11)
6.  Job's Reply (chs. 12-14)

3. The Second Cycle of Speeches (chs. 15-21)

1.  Eliphaz (ch. 15)
2.  Job's Reply (ch. 16; 17)
3.  Bildad (ch. 18)
4.  Job's Reply (ch. 19)
5.  Zophar (ch. 20)
6.  Job's Reply (ch. 21)

4. The Third Cycle of Speeches (chs. 22-26)

1.  Eliphaz (ch. 22)
2.  Job's Reply (ch. 23; 24)
3.  Bildad (ch. 25)
4.  Job's Reply (ch. 26)

5. Job's Disclosure (ch. 27)

3.  Interlude on Wisdom (ch. 28)

4.  Monologues (chs. 29-41)

1. Job's Final Oration (chs. 29-31)

   1.  Past Blessing, Honor, and Personal Benevolence (ch. 29)
   2.  Present Dishonor and Suffering and No Benevolence (ch. 30)
   3.  A Protestation of Innocence Under Sanctions and Oath (ch. 31)
    

2. Elihu's Speeches (chs. 32-37)

   1.  Apology for Speaking (32:1-5)
   2.  The First Speech (32:6-33:33)
   3.  The Second Speech (ch. 34)
   4.  The Third Speech (ch. 35)
   5.  The Fourth Speech (chs. 36; 37)
    

3. God's Responses (38:1-42:6)

1.  God's First Discourse (38:1-40:2)
2.  Job Humbled (40:3-5)
3.  God's Second Discourse (40:6-41:34)
4.  Job Repentant (42:1-6)

5.  Epilogue (42:7-17)

1. The Counselors Rebuked (42:7-9)
2. Job Restored (42:10-17)