Category Archives: Commentary

Job 20

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Zophar Speaks Job 20     ContentsHe Describes the Short-Lived Triumph of the Wicked (20:1-11)The Sweetness of Sin Will Become a Bitter Curse (20:12-19)God Will Sweep Away the Wicked Into Darkness (20:20-29) He Describes the Short-Lived Triumph of the Wicked (20:1-11) CHAPTER 20 1 And Zophar the Naamathite answered and said, 2 Therefore […]

Job 21

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Job Responds to Zophar Job 21     ContentsThe Wicked Don’t Always Suffer, But Often Prosper in This Life (21:1-16)The Wicked Often Die in Comfort (21:17-26)He Rejects Their Answers as False (21:27-34) The Wicked Don’t Always Suffer, But Often Prosper in This Life (21:1-16) CHAPTER 21 1 And Job answered and said, 2 […]

Job 22

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Third Cycle of Speeches Job 22 – 31   O U T L I N E – Third Cycle of Speeches Job 22 – 31 – Eliphaz Speaks Job 22 – Job Responds to Eliphaz Job 23 – 24 – Bildad Speaks Job 25 – Job’s LONG Response to Bildad Job 26 – […]

Job 23 – 24

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Job Responds to Eliphaz Job 23 – 24     ContentsHe Reasserts His Longing to Find God and Present His Case (23:1-9)Maintaining His Claims of Integrity, He is Awed by God’s Dealings (23:10-17)He Wonders Why the Wicked Often Sin With Impunity (24:1-17)What Job Thinks Should Happen to the Wicked, and Will Eventually Happen […]

Job 25

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Bildad Speaks Job 25     ContentsHe Proclaims the Greatness of God (25:1-3)Can Anyone be Righteous Before God? (25:4-6) He Proclaims the Greatness of God (25:1-3) CHAPTER 25 1 And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, 2 Dominion and fear are with him; he maketh peace in his high places. 3 Is there […]

Job 26 – 31

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Job’s LONG Response to Bildad Job 26 – 31     ContentsHe Declares That Bildad’s Counsel has been Worthless (26:1-4)He Demonstrates His Own Ability to Describe the Greatness of God (26:5-14)As He Continues His Discourse, He Maintains His Integrity (27:1-10)He Will Teach His Friends What God Will Do to the Wicked (27:11-23)He Gives […]

Job 15

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Second Cycle of Speeches Job 15 – 21   O U T L I N E – Second Cycle of Speeches Job 15 – 21 – Eliphaz Speaks Job 15 – Job Responds to Eliphaz Job 16 – 17 – Bildad Speaks Job 18 – Job Responds to Bildad Job 19 – Zophar […]

Job 12 – 14

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Job Responds to Zophar Job 12 – 14     ContentsHe Chides His Accusers (12:1-12)He Affirms God’s Own Wisdom and Strength (12:13-25)The Advice of His Friends has been No Help (13:1-12)Confident of His Own Integrity, Job Again Wishes to Speak With God (13:13-19)Job Appeals to God for an Audience (13:20-28)He Expresses Hopelessness in […]

Job 1 – 2

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Introduction Job 1 – 3   O U T L I N E – Introduction Job 1 – 3 – Prologue: Job is Tested Job 1 – 2 – Job’s Soliloquy: His Curse and His Questions Job 3   Prologue: Job is Tested Job 1 – 2     ContentsThe Person and Character […]

Job 3

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Job’s Soliloquy: His Curse and His Questions Job 3     ContentsJob’s Curse (3:1-10)Job’s Questions (3:11-19)Job Ponders the Problem of Suffering (3:20-26) Job’s Curse (3:1-10) CHAPTER 3 1 After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed his day. 2 And Job answered and said, 3 Let the day perish in which I was […]

Job 4 – 5

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   First Cycle of Speeches Job 4 – 14   O U T L I N E – First Cycle of Speeches Job 4 – 14 – Eliphaz Speaks Job 4 – 5 – Job Responds to Eliphaz Job 6 – 7 – Bildad Speaks Job 8 – Job Responds to Bildad Job 9 […]

Job 6 – 7

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Job Responds to Eliphaz Job 6 – 7     ContentsHe Justifies His Rash Words (6:1-7)He Longs for Death, While His Integrity is Still Intact (6:8-13)Job Reproaches His Friends (6:14-23)He Challenges Them to Show Him Where He has Sinned (6:24-30)Job Now Resumes His Complaint (7:1-10)Job Speaks Out in the Anguish of His Soul […]

Job 8

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Bildad Speaks Job 8     ContentsIntroductory Remarks (8:1-7)Bildad Appeals to the Wisdom of the Ancients (8:8-18) Introductory Remarks (8:1-7) CHAPTER 8 1 And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, 2 How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind? 3 Doth GOD pervert judgment, […]

Job 9 – 10

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Job Responds to Bildad Job 9 – 10     ContentsHe Agrees With Bildad, But Who Can Truly be Righteous Before God? (9:1-13)Because of Such Power, Job’s Complains of God’s Inaccessibility (9:14-20)Maintaining Claim to Innocence, Conclusion: God Destroys Indiscriminately (9:21-24)Feeling Hopeless, Job Bemoans the Lack of a Mediator (9:25-35)In Pain, Job Gives Free […]

Job 11

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Zophar Speaks Job 11     ContentsAffirms That Job has Received Less Than He Deserves (11:1-6)Reproaches Job for Desiring to Search Out God’s Hidden Ways (11:7-12)Promises Restoration Upon Repentance and Confession of Sin (11:13-20) Affirms That Job has Received Less Than He Deserves (11:1-6) CHAPTER 11 1 And Zophar the Naamathite answered and […]

Esther 7

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Esther Reveals Her Origin and Request Esther 7     CHAPTER 7 1 And the king and Haman came to drink with Esther the queen. 2 And the king said again to Esther on the second day, at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted […]

Esther 8

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Mordecai Administers the Kingdom Esther 8     CHAPTER 8 1 On that day did king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews’ oppressor to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her. 2 And the king took off his ring, which […]

Esther 9

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   The Jews Employed to Smite their Own Enemies Esther 9     CHAPTER 9 1 And in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day thereof, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews […]

Esther 10

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Conclusion Esther 10     CHAPTER 10 1 And king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land and the isles of the sea. 2 And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written […]

Esther 3

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Haman and His Hatred of the Jews Esther 3     CHAPTER 3 1 After these things king Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him. 2 And all the king’s servants that were in the king’s […]