Study Series
Book of Job
The Book of Job does not offer cold explanations for suffering. It sits near the sufferer. This series walks through Job's story — the losses, the questions, the whirlwind, and the restoration — always looking toward Christ, the perfectly righteous Sufferer in whom sorrow never has the final word.
Reading Order
Walk through it slowly
These reflections are written to be read in order, one at a time — but every door stands open on its own.
- 1 Job 1 — When the Righteous Suffer and Heaven Sees 20 min read
- 2 Job 3 — When a Good Man Curses the Day He Was Born 5 min read
- 3 Job 4 — The First Friend Speaks, and the Comfort Begins to Curdle 4 min read
- 4 Job 5 — When True Words Are Spoken to the Wrong Wound 4 min read
- 5 Job 6 — The Friend Who Became a Dried-Up Brook 4 min read
- 6 Job 7 — The Long Nights and the Question Turned Toward God 4 min read
- 7 Job 8 — Bildad and the Cruelty of Tidy Justice 5 min read
- 8 Job 9 — The Cry for a Daysman to Lay His Hand on Us Both 4 min read
- 9 Job 10 — Thine Hands Have Made Me: Talking Back to the God Who Formed Us 5 min read
- 10 Job 11 — Zophar, the Harshest Friend, and 'Less Than You Deserve' 4 min read
- 11 Job 12 — With Him Is Wisdom and Strength 5 min read
- 12 Job 13 — Though He Slay Me, Yet Will I Trust Him 5 min read
- 13 Job 14 — If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again? 4 min read
- 14 Job 15 — When Comfort Turns to Contempt 4 min read
- 15 Job 16 — Miserable Comforters and the Witness in Heaven 4 min read
- 16 Job 17 — When the Grave Feels Like Home, and the Plea for a Surety 4 min read
- 17 Job 18 — Bildad's Catalogue of Doom 4 min read
- 18 Job 19 — I Know That My Redeemer Liveth 5 min read
- 19 Job 20 — Zophar and the Short Triumph of the Wicked 4 min read
- 20 Job 21 — When the Wicked Prosper: Job Tells the Truth 4 min read
- 21 Job 22 — When the Accusations Become Lies 4 min read
- 22 Job 23 — Oh That I Knew Where I Might Find Him 4 min read
- 23 Job 24 — Why Does God Seem to Delay? 4 min read
- 24 Job 25 — The Friends Run Out of Words 4 min read
- 25 Job 26 — He Hangeth the Earth Upon Nothing 4 min read
- 26 Job 27 — Till I Die I Will Not Remove My Integrity 4 min read
- 27 Job 28 — But Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? 5 min read
- 28 Job 29 — When I Remember the Days I Was Whole 4 min read
- 29 Job 30 — But Now They Mock Me 5 min read
- 30 Job 31 — The Oath of a Clear Conscience 4 min read
- 31 Job 32 — A Younger Voice and the Spirit That Gives Understanding 4 min read
- 32 Job 33 — I Have Found a Ransom 4 min read
- 33 Job 34 — God Will Not Pervert Justice 4 min read
- 34 Job 35 — Does Your Goodness Add Anything to God? 4 min read
- 35 Job 36 — He Opens Our Ears in the Affliction 4 min read
- 36 Job 37 — Stand Still and Consider the Wondrous Works of God 4 min read
- 37 Job 38 — When God Answers from the Whirlwind 24 min read
- 38 Job 39 — The Wild Things That Answer to God Alone 4 min read
- 39 Job 40 — I Will Lay My Hand Upon My Mouth 4 min read
- 40 Job 41 — Leviathan, and the God Who Alone Can Tame the Untamable 4 min read
- 41 Leviathan and Behemoth — The Two Beasts Before the Beasts 7 min read
- 42 Job 42 — When the Soul Sees God and Begins Again 10 min read
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