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# 📖 Job
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> [[#📖 Summary of Book]]
> [[#📚 Genre]]
> [[#🙋♂️ Who is the Author]]
> [[#⌛️ When Was it Written]]
> [[#🧭 Theme Verse]]
> [[#🧭 Major Themes]]
> [[#📅 Outline of Book]]
> **[[#✍️ Chapter-by-Chapter Notes]]**
> [[#🙏 Devotional Reflections]]
> [[#📚 Further Study / Interesting Insights]]
## 📖 Summary of Book
> The Book of Job explores the problem of suffering and the sovereignty of God through the story of a righteous man who experiences intense loss and pain. After Satan challenges Job’s integrity, God allows Job to be tested, resulting in the loss of his family, health, and possessions. Job wrestles honestly with God while his friends offer misguided explanations for his suffering. In the end, God reveals His wisdom and restores Job, demonstrating that faith does not depend on understanding every circumstance.
#### 📚 Genre
- Wisdom Literature
- Poetry and Dialogue
#### 🙋♂️ Who is the Author
- Unknown
#### ⌛️ When Was it Written
- Possibly between 2000–1000 BC (patriarchal setting; date of composition uncertain)
## 🧭 Theme Verse
> Job 42:2 (NET)
> “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.”
## 🧭 Major Themes
• The sovereignty of God
• Human suffering
• Faith under trial
• Divine wisdom
• Integrity and righteousness
• God’s justice
• The limits of human understanding
• Perseverance
• Honest lament
• Restoration and hope
## 📅 Outline of Book
- 1:1–2:13 — Prologue: Job’s Testing
- Job’s righteousness
- Heavenly courtroom
- Loss and affliction
- 3:1–31:40 — Dialogues: Job and His Friends
- Laments and debates
- Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar
- Job’s defense
- 32:1–37:24 — Elihu’s Speeches
- God’s discipline
- Preparation for God’s response
- 38:1–42:6 — God’s Speeches
- God’s questions
- Divine wisdom
- 42:7–17 — Epilogue: Restoration
- God’s rebuke of friends
- Job restored
## ✍️ Chapter-by-Chapter Notes
- [[Job 01]]
- [[Job 02]]
- [[Job 03]]
- [[Job 04]]
- [[Job 05]]
- [[Job 06]]
- [[Job 07]]
- [[Job 08]]
- [[Job 09]]
- [[Job 10]]
- [[Job 11]]
- [[Job 12]]
- [[Job 13]]
- [[Job 14]]
- [[Job 15]]
- [[Job 16]]
- [[Job 17]]
- [[Job 18]]
- [[Job 19]]
- [[Job 20]]
- [[Job 21]]
- [[Job 22]]
- [[Job 23]]
- [[Job 24]]
- [[Job 25]]
- [[Job 26]]
- [[Job 27]]
- [[Job 28]]
- [[Job 29]]
- [[Job 30]]
- [[Job 31]]
- [[Job 32]]
- [[Job 33]]
- [[Job 34]]
- [[Job 35]]
- [[Job 36]]
- [[Job 37]]
- [[Job 38]]
- [[Job 39]]
- [[Job 40]]
- [[Job 41]]
- [[Job 42]]
## 🙏 Devotional Reflections
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## 📚 Further Study / Interesting Insights
**Further Study**.
1. John E. Hartley, The Book of Job (New International Commentary on the Old Testament)
2. Francis I. Andersen, Job (Tyndale Old Testament Commentary)
3. Tremper Longman III, Job (Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms)
**Interesting Insights**.
1. Job is considered one of the oldest books in the Bible.
2. Job is described as “blameless and upright.”
3. The book opens with a heavenly council scene.
4. Job’s friends speak more than Job himself.
5. Elihu is the youngest speaker in the book.
6. God never explains the reason for Job’s suffering.
7. Two mysterious creatures, Behemoth and Leviathan, appear in God’s speech.
8. Job’s lifespan suggests a patriarchal era setting.
9. James 5:11 refers to Job’s perseverance.
10. The book ends with Job receiving double what he lost.
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