Job: Summary & Overview
Overview
Job tackles the most profound question in human experience: Why do the righteous suffer? Job, a blameless man, loses everything — family, wealth, health. His friends insist he must have sinned, but Job maintains his innocence. When God finally speaks, He doesn't explain suffering — He reveals Himself. Job learns that trusting God doesn't require understanding everything.
Key Themes
- •The mystery of suffering
- •God's sovereignty
- •Faith without answers
- •The inadequacy of human wisdom
- •Encountering God directly
Famous Verses
“The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”
— Job 1:21
“For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.”
— Job 19:25
“I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.”
— Job 42:5
“Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?”
— Job 38:4
“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him.”
— Job 13:15
Key Facts
- Testament
- Old Testament
- Genre
- Wisdom / Poetry
- Author
- Unknown
- Date Written
- Unknown (possibly very ancient)
- Chapters
- 42
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