An outline of the Book of Job

Hebrew Name - Iyov "object of enmity" (meaning uncertain)
Greek Name - Iob (Greek form of the Hebrew)
Author - Job (According to Tradition)
Date - 2180 BC Approximately
Theme - Trusting the Lord in the midst of evil and suffering
Types and Shadows - In Job Jesus is the ever-living redeemer

 1:1-1:5     Job and His Family
 1:6-1:12    Attack on Job's Character
 1:13-1:22   Job Loses Property and Children

 2:1-2:10    Attack ono Job's Health
 2:11-2;13   Job's Three Friends

 3:1-3:26    Job Curses the Day He Was Born

 4:1-4:21    Eliphaz Speaks: Job Has Sinned

 5:1-5:27    Job is Corrected by God

 6:1-6:30    Job Replies: My Complaint Is Just

 7:1-7:21    Job: My Suffering Is Without End

 8:1-8:22    Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent

 9:1-9:35    Job Replies: There Is No Mediator

10:1-10:22   Job: I Loathe My Life

11:1-11:20   Zohar Speaks: Job's Guilt Deserves Punishment

12:1-13:19   Job Replies: I Am a Laughingstock

13:20-14:22  Job's Despondent Prayer

15:1-15:35   Eliphaz Speaks: Job Undermines Religion

16:1-16:22   Job Reaffirms His Innocence

17:1-18:21   Job Prays for Relief

19:1-19:29   Job Replies: I Know That My Redeemer Lives

20:1-20:29   Zaphar Speaks: Wickedness Receives

             Just Retribution

21:1-21:34   Job Replies: The Wicked Often Go Unpunished

22:1-22:30   Eliphaz Speaks: Job's Wickedness Is Great

23:1-23:17   Job Replies: My Complaint Is Bitter

24:1-24:25   Job Complains of Violence on the Earth

25:1-25:6    Bildad Speaks: How Can a Mortal Be 

             Righteous Before God?

26:1-26:14   Job Replies: God's Majesty Is Unsearchable

27:1-27:23   Job Maintains His Integrity

28:1-28:28   Interlude: Where Wisdom Is Found

29:1-31:40   Job Finishes His Defense

32:1-32:22   Elihu Rebukes Job's Friends

33:1-33:33   Elihu Rebukes Job

34:1-34:37   Elihu Proclaims God's Justice

35:1-35:16   Elihu Condemns Self-Righteousness

36:1-36:23   Elihu Exalts God's Goodness
36:24-37:24  Elihu Proclaims God's Majesty

38:1-40:5    The Lord Answers Job

40:6-41:34   God's Challenge to Job

42:1-42:6    Job Is Humbled and Satisfied
42:7-42:9    Job's Friends Are Humiliated
42:10-42:17  Job's Fortunes Are Restored Twofold