Category Archives: Commentary

Job 18

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Bildad Speaks Job 18     ContentsHe is Incensed at Job (18:1-4)He Too Provides a Lengthy Description of the Suffering of the Wicked (18:5-21) He is Incensed at Job (18:1-4) CHAPTER 18 1 And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said, 2 How long will ye hunt for words? Be intelligent, and then we […]

Job 19

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Job Responds to Bildad Job 19     ContentsHe Responds to His Critics (19:1-6)Job Again Directs His Complaint to God (19:7-12)He Bewails His Loneliness (19:13-22)He Affirms His Faith (19:23-29) He Responds to His Critics (19:1-6) CHAPTER 19 1 And Job answered and said, 2 How long will ye vex my soul, and crush […]

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 1

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Ahasuerus and Vashti Esther 1     CHAPTER 1 1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (that is, the Ahasuerus that reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces), 2 in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which […]

Esther 2

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Esther, Wife and Queen Esther 2     CHAPTER 2 1 After these things, when the fury of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. 2 Then said the king’s servants that attended upon him, Let there be maidens, virgins of beautiful […]

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 […]

Esther 4

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Esther’s Dilemma: Great Tribulation Esther 4     CHAPTER 4 1 And when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his garments, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and bitter cry, 2 and came even before the king’s […]

Esther 5

Bk Sec Outline Sec Bk   Esther Received by the King Esther 5     CHAPTER 5 1 And it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s house. And the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal […]