OUTLINE FOR THE BOOK OF JOB

Chapters
1-2                 Prolog
3                    Job's passionate outburst
4-27              Three cycles of speeches of three visitors and responses from Job
28                 A poem about the inaccessibility of wisdom
29-31            Job's concluding statement--longing for the old days and oath of innocence
32-37            Elihu's speeches
38-41            Two speeches by God
40:3-5           Job's reply to God's first speech
42:1-6           Job's reply to God's second speech
42:7-17         Epilog