Contents

Preface

A Note on the Transcription of Hebrew and Other Semitic Languages

A Note on (Not) Translating the Names of God

Introduction

JOB

Prologue (1:1–2:13)

Job’s Opening Discourse (3:1–26; 4:12–21)

Eliphaz’s First Discourse (4:1–11; 5:1–27)

Job’s Response to Eliphaz (6:1–7:21)

Bildad’s First Discourse (8:1–22)

Job’s Response to Bildad (9:1–10:22)

Zophar’s First Discourse (11:1–20)

Job’s Response to Zophar (12:1–14:22)

Eliphaz’s Second Discourse (15:1–35)

Job’s Response to Eliphaz (16:1–17:16)

Bildad’s Second Discourse (18:1–21)

Job’s Response to Bildad (19:1–29)

Zophar’s Second Discourse (20:1–29)

Job’s Response to Zophar (21:1–34)

Eliphaz’s Third Discourse (22:1–30)

Job’s Response to Eliphaz (23:1–24:17, 24:25)

A Secondary Response to Job (24:18–24)

Bildad’s Third Discourse (25:1–26:14)

Job’s Response to Bildad (27:1–23)

Job’s Closing Discourse (29:1–31:40)

Elihu’s First Discourse (32:1–33:33)

Elihu’s Second Discourse (34:1–37)

Elihu’s Third Discourse (35:1–16)

Elihu’s Fourth Discourse (36:1–37:24; 28:1–28)

The Deity’s First Discourse (38:1–39:30)

Job’s Response the the Deity (40:1–5)

The Deity’s Second Discourse (40:6–41:26)

Job’s Response to the Deity (42:1–6)

Epilogue (42:7–17)

References and Select Bibliography

Index