speeches of Elihu are recorded in 32:1— 37:24 C SURVEY CHART Chart 67 is a survey chart of Job, showing the book’s organization by various outlines Refer to this chart as you make the following observations and complete the study suggestions: Note how the book opens (“Job Before the Trial”), and how it closes (“Job After the Trial”) Read the passages involved Observe the three-part outline of style at the top of the chart Study the outlines shown below the base line Check out these outlines with the results of your own survey study You may need to scan the biblical text at some places to verify an outline Justify the location of main divisions at 38:1; 40:3; and 42:7 4 What is the basis for dividing the controversies of chapters 4-31 into three cycles? (Refer back to your work sheet, showing the alternations of speakers in the dialogues.) Observe the progression at the bottom of the chart, beginning with “The Problem of Pain.” Read these other choice passages of Job at this time: 1:21; 5:17; 14:14; 16:21; 19:2327; 26:7-14; 28:12-28; 42:1-6 You may wonder why such a large portion of the book is devoted to the wrong diagnoses and arguments of Job’s three friends If their main charge was that Job’s su ering was caused by his personal sins, you suppose their own security was imperiled by the possibility of the same kind of su ering befalling them? If so, does this partly explain their persistence in dealing with Job? IV PROMINENT SUBJECTS Of the many important subjects of the book of Job, three are especially prominent: Satan, the problem of pain, and genuine trust A SATAN Much can be learned about Satan from the book of Job For example, Satan is not a name representing impersonal evil; Satan is the personal enemy of God and His children The persons and events of the narrative of Job are real persons and actual events “There was a man… There was a day… Then Satan … smote Job” (1:1, 6; 2:7) This is precise, genuine history And, lest one think that Satan is no longer active in accusing the children of God, the last book of the Bible reveals the sober truth of Satan’s continuing work until end times: “The accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night” (Rev 12:10; cf Pet 5:8) Satan rst appears in the story of man in the Garden of Eden Recall the account of his beguiling Adam and Eve (Gen 3:1-7) The text refers to him as “the serpent.” How you know that this was Satan? (Cf Rev 12:9.) Why is Satan antihumankind? Note that the name Satan literally means “adversary.” Of its nineteen appearances in the Old Testament, fourteen are in Job The name devil means “slanderer,” and is found only in the New Testament (sixty times) B THE PROBLEM OF PAIN The book of Job is the Bible’s fullest treatment of this vexing problem The summary given below shows how the book ... by the possibility of the same kind of su ering befalling them? If so, does this partly explain their persistence in dealing with Job? IV PROMINENT SUBJECTS Of the many important subjects of the. .. accusing the children of God, the last book of the Bible reveals the sober truth of Satan’s continuing work until end times: ? ?The accuser of our brethren has been thrown down, who accuses them before... evil; Satan is the personal enemy of God and His children The persons and events of the narrative of Job are real persons and actual events “There was a man… There was a day… Then Satan … smote