Sunday, October 2, 2022

Job Notes: 25 Day Reading Cycle of Book of Job

 First Presbyterian Church of Perth Amboy           October 2022

1)     Job 1:1-2:10            Setting the Stage

a.    Job is introduced as a man of devotion and blessed material reward. In the Divine Council, he becomes the subject of discussion between God and Satan. From that discussion, Satan reduces Job to infirmed poverty.

2)     Job 2:11-3:26          Job’s Lament

a.    Three friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar come to comfort and condole with Job. Job cries out in his anguish, seeking “Why?”

3)     Job 4:1-5:27            The first Speech of Eliphaz

4)     Job 6:1-7:21            Job’s Response

5)     Job 8:1-22               The first Speech of Bildad

6)     Job 9:1-10:22          Job’s Response

7)     Job 11:1-20             The first Speech of Zophar

8)     Job 12:1-14:22        Job’s Response

9)     Job 15:1-35             The second speech of Eliphaz

10)        Job 16:1-17:16     Job’s Response

11)        Job 18:1-21          The second speech of Bildad

12)        Job 19:1-29          Job’s Response

13)        Job 20:1-29          The second speech of Zophar

14)        Job 21:1-34          Job’s Response

15)        Job 22:1-20          The third speech of Eliphaz

16)        Job 23:1-24:25     Job’s Response

17)        Job 25:1-6            The third speech of Bildad

18)        Job 26:1-28:26     Job’s Response

19)        Job 29:1-31:40     Job’s Summary and “Closing Argument”

20)        Job 32:1-33:33     Elihu Steps In

a.    Not mentioned before, Elihu seems to be a young man who was just ‘observing’ but feels the need to speak.

21)        Job 34:1-35:16     Elihu con’t: Defending God

22)        Job 36:1-37:24     Elihu con’t: Request Job Consider God

23)        Job 38:1-40:2       God Speaks

a.    God speaks powerfully with a brief response from Job

24)        Job 40:3-42:6       God Speaks a second time

a.    Job responds with repentance

25)        Job 42:7-16          Conclusion and Epilogue

a.    Job intercedes for his friends and his life of material blessing is restored by God.

Rev. Peter Hofstra

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