Your Job is Job

1. Know the Purpose to Get the Point

2. See the Structure to Catch the Message

     a. The Setting of the Story (Job 1-2)

     b. The Lament of Job (Job 3)

     c. The Three Cycles of Debate (Job 4-31) 

          i. Cycle One: (Job 4-14)

               A. Eliphaz speaks (Job 4:1-5:27)

               B. Job answers (Job 6:1-7:21)

               C. Bildad speaks (Job 8:1-22)

               D. Job answers (Job 9:1-10:22)

               E. Zophar speaks (Job 11:1-20)

               F. Job answers (Job 12:1-14:22)

        ii. Cycle Two: (15-21)

               A. Eliphaz speaks (Job 15:1-35)

               B. Job answers (Job 16:1-17:16)

               C. Bildad speaks (Job 18:1-21)

               D. Job answers (Job 19:1-29)

               E. Zophar speaks (Job 20:1-29)

               F. Job answers (Job 21:1-34)

          iii. Cycle Three: (22-26)

               A. Eliphaz speaks (Job 22:1-30)

               B. Job answers (Job 23:1-24:25)

               C. Bildad speaks (Job 25:1-6)

               D. Job answers (Job 26:1-14)

               E. Zophar is gone...

     d. Job discourses (Job 27-31)

     e. Elihu speaks (Job 32-37)

     f. God Comes Down (Job 38-42)