a) Name means “hairy,” or “rough.” b) Native of Naamah, or Naamath (2:11), probably of North Arabia c) Possibly the oldest of the three friends.17 d) A dogmatist and moralist; blunt; sometimes displayed a holier than-thou attitude e) Charged Job with boasting (11:2-6) f) One of his main contentions: God knows iniquity when He sees it (see 11:11) Elihu a) Name means “He is my God.” b) Native of Buz (possibly of Arabia or Syria) c) The youngest of the four men, not an intimate companion of Job’s three friends d) One of his main contentions: God is good (see 33:24) Of the four men, Elihu gave the best diagnosis of Job’s plight, saying that sufferings are often God’s way of refining the righteous He did not go far enough in his diagnosis, however III SURVEY The book of Job is a good example of the necessity of making an overview of the text in general before analyzing its small parts For example, we might read one of the speeches of Job’s three friends and reach very wrong conclusions if we did not rst relate the speech to the total story, which includes how Job’s plight originated (chaps 1-2), and what God thought of the three friends’ interpretations (e.g., 42:7) A A FIRST SCANNING How many chapters are there in the book? Scan the opening phrases of the chapters Would you say the book is mainly action, or mainly discourse? Where in the book the speeches begin, and where they end?18 B CHAPTER CONTENT Now scan the book again, and identify more speci cally the content of each of the chapters For the speeches (3:1—42:6) you need now only note who the speakers are Sometimes a speech covers more than one chapter (e.g., Eliphaz’s speech of chaps 4-5) Only two chapters of the poetry section contain speeches that are shorter than a full chapter (see chaps 40, 42) Record the speakers of each chapter on a work sheet that has four columns under the names of Job, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar Read each of the following sections, and record the theme of each on paper: The rst three passages of the middle column (above) represent the debates between Job and his three friends The ... under the names of Job, Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar Read each of the following sections, and record the theme of each on paper: The rst three passages of the middle column (above) represent the. .. SURVEY The book of Job is a good example of the necessity of making an overview of the text in general before analyzing its small parts For example, we might read one of the speeches of Job’s... chapters are there in the book? Scan the opening phrases of the chapters Would you say the book is mainly action, or mainly discourse? Where in the book the speeches begin, and where they end?18