By the Book | Job: Introduction

Main Characters in the Book of Job: 

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• Job’s  
•   the Temanite
•   the Shuhite
•   the Naamathite
•   the Buzite

Job 32:4

“Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because they were years older than he.”

The main theme of Job is  . 

An underlying theme of Job is  . 

Job Chapter by Chapter:

• Chapters 1 and 2:  The adversary or the accuser (Satan) approaches God, who allows him to test Job’s faith.  Job   greatly. 
• Chapters 3-14:  Job’s   conversation with his friends, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar.
• Chapters 15-21:  Job’s   conversation with them.
• Chapters 22-31:  Job’s third conversation with them. 

Job and His Friends’ Debate Three Questions:

 #1 - Is God  ? 

#2 - Does God run the universe on the strict principle of  ? 

#3 - How is Job’s   to be explained?   

Job 1:8

Then Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job?  No one else on earth is like him, a man of perfect integrity, who fears God and turns away from evil.”

Job 31:35

“Let the Almighty answer me!”

• Chapters 32-37:  Elihu  

Job 38:1

“Then Yahweh answered Job out of the whirlwind.”

• Chapters 38-41:  God’s   to Job  
• Chapter 42:  Job’s confession that God is in control, God’s praise of Job’s faith, and God’s   restored to Job