Job's initial lament

Job's response: pleading for comfort

Job's response: how can a man contend with God?

Job's response: rather than seek answers of his worthless friends, Job would seek them of God

Eliphaz's second speech: It is the wicked who suffer endlessly, defy God and lose all they have

Bildad's second speech: the wicked are wiped out

Zophar's second speech: the heritage of the wicked

Eliphaz's third speech: false charges against Job

Bildad's third speech: how can man be righteous before God?, Job's response: Bildad has been useless in helping Job and in explaining God

Job's summary discourse: he was blessed and respected but is now mocked and devastated

Elihu's first speech: suffering is to teach and save men

Elihu's fourth speech: further defense of God and proclamation of the Creator's vast power and wisdom

God's first discourse continued: he rules and tends the animal world, first discourse concludes: will Job correct God, Job's first response to God: he has no answer