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Job opens with “A Wager Job Never Hears About” and carries its history toward “Out of the Whirlwind.” Two conversations happen in heaven that Job is never told about, and then the messengers arrive one after another until everything is gone. God answers out of the storm and asks questions instead of giving reasons: where were you, can you bind the Pleiades, have you seen the doors of the sea.
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Job 1–3
Two conversations happen in heaven that Job is never told about, and then the messengers arrive one after another until everything is gone. He tears his robe, sits down in ashes, and after seven silent days opens his mouth to curse the day he was born.
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Job 4–7
Eliphaz has had a vision in the night and asks the question the whole book turns on: can a mortal be more just than God. Job answers that he wants his complaint weighed on a scale, and that a man in his position is owed pity rather than a lecture.
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Job 8–14
Eliphaz, Bildad and Zophar take turns on a single idea: God is just, suffering is punishment, so confess. Job answers that he would confess if anyone would tell him what to confess, that they are miserable comforters, and that he wants to put his case to God directly. In the middle of it he says the thing they cannot: though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.
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Job 15–21
The second round gets colder. Job calls them miserable comforters, asks to have his words written in a book and cut into rock with an iron pen, and says he knows his redeemer lives and that he will see God with his own eyes.
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Job 22–27
Eliphaz finally names crimes Job never committed. Job answers that he would state his case if he could only find the courtroom, and points at the evidence in plain sight: the wicked live long, grow rich and die comfortable in their beds.
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Job 28–31
Men sink shafts for silver and cut channels through rock, but wisdom is not turned up by digging and cannot be bought with gold. Job then swears an oath of innocence item by item, down to whether his fields were ever taken without paying.
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Job 32–37
Elihu has held his tongue out of respect for age and cannot hold it any longer. He argues that suffering can instruct and not only punish, and points to the thunder, the snow and the balancing of the clouds as things no one can argue with.
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Job 38–42
God answers out of the storm and asks questions instead of giving reasons: where were you, can you bind the Pleiades, have you seen the doors of the sea. Job puts his hand over his mouth, and what he lost is given back twice over.
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