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| Editor's Foreword | |
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| Author's Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Patience of Job | |
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| Related Texts in the Ancient Near East | |
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| Genre | |
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| Composition | |
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| Date and Social Worlds | |
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| Structure | |
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| On the Basis of Diction | |
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| On the Basis of Dramatic Movement | |
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| On the Basis of Individual Components | |
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| Main Themes | |
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| Warrants for the Arguments | |
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| Why Poetry? | |
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| Related Texts in the Bible | |
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| Dissent in the Bible | |
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| Canonization | |
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| The Testament of Job | |
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| Job in the Koran | |
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| The Flourishing of the Interrogative: Fourth Ezra and Second Baruch | |
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| Saadiah Ben Joseph Al-Fayyūmī | |
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| Job's Continuing Influence | |
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| Bontsye Shvayg | |
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| Blake's Illustrations | |
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| C. G. Jung's Answer to Job | |
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| Archibald MacLeish's J.B. | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Commentary | |
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| The Prologue (1:1-2:13) | |
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| The First Cycle of Debate | |
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| Job Curses the Day of his Birth (3:1-26) | |
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| Eliphaz's Initial Speech (4:1-5:27) | |
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| Job's Response to Eliphaz (6:1-7:21) | |
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| Bildad's First Speech (8:1-22) | |
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| Job's Response to Bildad (9:1-10:22) | |
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| Zophar's First Speech (11:1-20) | |
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| The Contrast Between Eloah and Humans (11:5-11) | |
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| Repent and Rest Securely (11:12-20) | |
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| The Second Cycle of Debate | |
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| Job's Lament (12:1-14:22) | |
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| Eliphaz's Second Speech (15:1-35) | |
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| Job's Response (16:1-17:16) | |
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| Bildad's Second Speech (18:1-21) | |
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| Job's Fifth Response (19:1-29) | |
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| Zophar's Second Speech (20:1-29) | |
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| The Third Cycle of Debate | |
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| Job's Refutation of his Friends' Worldview (21:1-34) | |
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| Eliphaz's Third Speech (22:1-30) | |
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| Job's Response to Eliphaz (23:1-24:25) | |
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| Bildad's Third Speech (25:1-6) | |
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| Job's Response to Bildad(?) (26:1-27:23) | |
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| Wisdom's Inaccessibility (28:1-28) | |
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| The Contrast between Job's Past and Present (29:1-31:40) | |
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| A Nostalgic Past (29:1-25) | |
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| Job's Present Misery (30:1-31) | |
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| An Oath of Innocence (31:1-40) | |
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| Elihu's Four Speeches (32:1-37:24) | |
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| Elihu's First Speech (32:6b-33:33) | |
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| The Argument (32:8-30) | |
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| Elihu's Second Speech (34:1-37) | |
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| Elihu's Third Speech (35:2-16) | |
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| Elihu's Fourth Speech (36:2-37:24) | |
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| The Divine Speeches and Job's Responses (38:1-42:6) | |
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| Yahweh's First Speech (38:1-40:2) | |
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| Job's First Response (40:3-5) | |
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| Yahweh's Second Speech (40:6-41:34) | |
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| Job's Second Response (42:1-6) | |
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| The Epilogue (42:7-17) | |
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| Postscript: Why Read Job Today? | |
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| Works Cited | |