Book of Job•NIV

Outline

1. Prologue: Job’s Character and the Circumstances of His Test (1:1-2:13)
2. Dialogue: Job, His Suffering, and His Standing before God (3:1-42:6)
   1. Job: despair for the day of his birth (3:1-26)
   2. The friends and Job: can Job be right before God? (4:1-25:6)
      1. First cycle (4:1-14:22)
      2. Second cycle (15:1-21:34)
      3. Third cycle (22:1-25:6)
   3. Job: the power of God, place of wisdom, and path of integrity (26:1-31:40)
   4. Elihu: suffering as a discipline (32:1-37:24)
   5. Challenge: the Lord answers Job (38:1-42:6)
3. Epilogue: The Vindication, Intercession, and Restoration of Job (42:7-17)