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Job: Chapter-by-Chapter Commentary

Alastair Roberts

Job: Chapter-by-Chapter Commentary

February 17, 2022
Alastair Roberts
Alastair Roberts

*CONTENTS*

00:00:00 - Chapter 1: Satan Attacks Job's Property and Family

00:13:04 - Chapter 2: Satan Attacks Job's Body

00:19:30 - Chapter 3: Job Curses the Day of His Birth

00:28:07 - Chapter 4: Eliphaz's First Speech

00:34:28 - Chapter 5: Eliphaz's First Speech

00:40:26 - Chapter 6: Job Replies to Eliphaz's First Speech

00:46:31 - Chapter 7: Job Replies to Eliphaz's First Speech

00:52:09 - Chapter 8: Bildad's First Speech

00:58:56 - Chapter 9: Job Replies to Bildad's First Speech

01:07:27 - Chapter 10: Job Replies to Bildad's First Speech

01:12:37 - Chapter 11: Zophar's First Speech

01:19:39 - Chapter 12: Job Replies to Zophar's First Speech

01:27:06 - Chapter 13: Job Replies to Zophar's First Speech

01:34:24 - Chapter 14: Job Replies to Zophar's First Speech

01:40:39 - Chapter 15: Eliphaz's Second Speech

01:49:29 - Chapter 16: Job Replies to Eliphaz's Second Speech

01:57:12 - Chapter 17: Job Replies to Eliphaz's Second Speech

02:03:09 - Chapter 18: Bildad's Second Speech

02:08:38 - Chapter 19: Job Replies to Bildad's Second Speech

02:16:25 - Chapter 20: Zophar's Second Speech

02:23:16 - Chapter 21: Job Replies to Zophar's Second Speech

02:30:51 - Chapter 22: Eliphaz's Third Speech

02:37:55 - Chapter 23: Job Replies to Eliphaz's Third Speech

02:43:38 - Chapter 24: Job Replies to Eliphaz's Third Speech

02:51:53 - Chapter 25: Bildad's Third Speech

02:58:37 - Chapter 26: Job Replies to Bildad's Third Speech

03:02:41 - Chapter 27: Job Replies to Eliphaz's Third Speech

03:13:42 - Chapter 28: Where is Wisdom?

03:25:50 - Chapter 29: Job's Defence

03:37:01 - Chapter 30: Job Continues to Lay out His Case

03:42:58 - Chapter 31: Job's Appeal

03:52:39 - Chapter 32: Elihu Rebukes the Friends

04:02:11 - Chapter 33: Elihu Addresses Job

04:08:36 - Chapter 34: Elihu's Speech

04:17:25 - Chapter 35: Elihu's Speech

04:24:21 - Chapter 36: Elihu's Speech

04:30:49 - Chapter 37: Elihu's Speech

04:38:34 - Chapter 38: The Lord Answers Job out of the Whirlwind

04:54:34 - Chapter 39: The Lord Answers Job

05:09:05 - Chapter 40: The Lord Challenges Job

05:16:49 - Chapter 41: Leviathan

05:29:42 - Chapter 42: The Restoration of Job

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