The Cruel God: Job's Search for the Meaning of Suffering

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Acknowledgments vii
• Contents ix
• Preface xi
• Chapter One - A Search for a Key to the Book of Job 1
• The Prologue 7
• Chapter Two - The Patient Job . . . Job 1-2 9
• The First Cycle 15
• Chapter Three - Greatly Daring . . . Job 3 17
• Chapter Four - Eliphaz Counsels Job . . . Job 4-5 27
• Chapter Five - Channels in Drought . . . Job 6-8 35
• Chapter Six - The Source of Job's Misery . . . Job 9-11 43
• The Second Cycle 53
• Chapter Seven - "Though He Slay Me--" . . . Job 12-14:6 55
• Chapter Eight - "If a Man Die--?" . . . Job 14:7-15 63
• Chapter Nine - "Behold, My Witness is in Heaven" . . . Job 16-18 71
• Chapter Ten - "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" . . . Job 19-20 81
• The Third Cycle 93
• Chapter Eleven - The Remoteness of God . . . Job 21-22 95
• Chapter Twelve - God Terrifies Job . . . Job 23-24 104
• Chapter Thirteen - Job Holds Fast to His Integrity . . . Job 25-27 111
• Job and the Voice 119
• Chapter Fourteen - "Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?" . . . Job 28 121
• Chapter Fifteen - The Way of a Man with God . . . Job 29-31 127
• Chapter Sixteen - The Way of God with a Man . . . Job 38-40:14 and 42:1-6 139
• The End--And the Epilogue 151
• Chapter Seventeen - "Things Too Wonderful" . . . Job 40:7-42:17 153
• The Poet--An Interpretation 161
• Chapter Eighteen - The Way of the Poet with Job and God 163
• Chapter Nineteen - When and Where Does the Poet Write? 170
• The Sequel 179
• Chapter Twenty - The Elder and the Younger Elihu . . . Job 32-37 181
• Chapter Twenty-One - A Lifting of the Veil 193
• Appendix I - The Form of Hebrew Poetry 201
• Appendix II - Names for God in the Book of Job 205
• Notes 207
• A Selected Bibliography 215
• Biblical References 219
• Index 220

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