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Job
This book takes its name from the holy man of whom it treats: who, according to the more probable opinion, was of the race of Esau; and the same as Jobab, king of Edom, mentioned in Genesis 36:33. It is uncertain who was the writer of it. Some attribute it to Job himself; others to Moses, or some one of the prophets. In the Hebrew it is written in verse, from the beginning of the third chapter to the forty-second chapter. (For more information, see the article JOB in the Catholic Encyclopedia.)
Chapter 1. Job's virtue and riches. Satan by permission from God strippeth him of all his substance. His patience.
Chapter 2. Satan, by God's permission, striketh Job with ulcers from head to foot: his patience is still invincible.
Chapter 3. Job expresseth his sense of the miseries of man's life, by cursing the day of his birth.
Chapter 4. Eliphas charges Job with impatience, and pretends that God never afflicts the innocent.
Chapter 5. Eliphaz proceeds in his charge, and exhorts Job to acknowledge his sins.
Chapter 6. Job maintains his innocence, and complains of his friends.
Chapter 7. Job declares the miseries of man's life: and addresses himself to God.
Chapter 8. Baldad, under pretence of defending the justice of God, accuses Job, and exhorts him to return to God.
Chapter 9. Job acknowledges God's justice: although he often afflicts the innocent.
Chapter 10. Job laments his afflictions and begs to be delivered.
Chapter 11. Sophar reproves Job, for justifying himself, and invites him to repentance.
Chapter 12. Job's reply to Sophar. He extols God's power and wisdom.
Chapter 13. Job persists in maintaining his innocence: and reproves his friends.
Chapter 14. Job declares the shortness of man's days: and professes his belief of a resurrection.
Chapter 15. Eliphaz returns to the charge against Job, and describes the wretched state of the wicked.
Chapter 16. Job expostulates with his friends: and appeals to the judgment of God.
Chapter 17. Job's hope in God: he expects rest in death.
Chapter 18. Baldad again reproves Job and describes the miseries of the wicked.
Chapter 19. Job complains of the cruelty of his friends; he describes his own sufferings: and his belief of a future resurrection.
Chapter 20. Sophar declares the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked: and their sudden downfall.
Chapter 21. Job shows that the wicked often prosper in this world, even to the end of their life: but that their judgment is in another world.
Chapter 22. Eliphaz falsely imputes many crimes to Job, but promises him prosperity if he will repent.
Chapter 23. Job wishes to be tried at God's tribunal.
Chapter 24. God's providence often suffers the wicked to go on a long time in their sins: but punisheth them in another life.
Chapter 25. God's providence often suffers the wicked to go on a long time in their sins: but punisheth them in another life.
Chapter 26. Job declares his sentiments of the wisdom and power of God.
Chapter 27. Job persists in asserting his own innocence, and that hypocrites will be punished in the end.
Chapter 28. Man's industry searcheth out many things: true wisdom is taught by God alone.
Chapter 29. Job relates his former happiness, and the respect that all men showed him.
Chapter 30. Job shows the wonderful change of his temporal estate, from welfare to great calamity.
Chapter 31. Job, to defend himself from the unjust judgments of his friends, gives a sincere account of his own virtues.
Chapter 32. Eliu is angry with Job and his friends. He boasts of himself.
Chapter 33. Eliu blames Job for asserting his own innocence.
Chapter 34. Eliu charges Job with blasphemy: and sets forth the power and justice of God.
Chapter 35. Eliu declares that the good or evil done by man cannot reach God.
Chapter 36. Eliu proceeds in setting forth the justice and power of God.
Chapter 37. Eliu goes on in his discourse, showing God's wisdom and power, by his wonderful works.
Chapter 38. God interposes and shows from the things he hath made, that man cannot comprehend his power and wisdom.
Chapter 39. The wonders of the power and providence of God in many of his creatures.
Chapter 40. Of the power of God in the behemoth and the leviathan.
Chapter 41. A further description of the leviathan.
Chapter 42. Job submits himself. God pronounces in his favour. Job offers sacrifice for his friends. He is blessed with riches and children, and dies happily,
