Book Description

Title:

The Problem of Pain: a Study in the Book of Job

Author:

John Edgar McFadyen [1870-1933]

Publication Year:

[n.d.]

Location:

London

Publisher:

James Clarke

Pages:

297

Subjects:

Job, Commentary, Old Testament

Copyright Holder:

Public domain

Table of Contents

• The Prologue: A Good Man Crushed
• Ruined Fortunes (Ch. i.)
• Ruined Health (Ch. ii.)
• Act I
• Job's Lament and Longing for Death (Ch. iii.)
• Eliphaz's Comfortable Exhortation and Revelation (Chs. iv. and v.)
• Job's Denunciation of Hollow Friendship. His Challenge of God and His Longing to Be Gone (Chs. vi. and vii.)
• Bildad's Appeal to the Teaching of Tradition (Ch. viii.)
• Job's Challenge of Immoral Omnipotence (Chs. ix. and x.)
• Zophar's Appeal to the Unsearchable Wisdom of God (Ch. xi.)
• Job's Independent Criticism of This World and His Glimpse Beyond It (Chs. xii.-xiv.)
• Act II
• Eliphaz's Appeal to the Unadulterated Doctrine of the Past (Ch. xv.)
• Job's Cry to the Witness in Heaven (Chs. xvi. and xvii.)
• Bildad's Picture of the Sure and Terrible Doom of the Wicked (Ch. xviii.)
• Job's Sublime Faith in His Future Vindication (Ch. xix.)
• Zophar's Warning and Innuendo that Heaven and Earth Have Already Witnessed Against Job (Ch. xx.)
• Job's Fierce Indictment of the Existing Order (Ch. xxi.)
• Act III
• Eliphaz's Cruel and Baseless Charges (Ch. xxii.)
• Job's Second Sustained Indictment of the Existing Order (Chs. xxiii. and xxiv.)
• Bildad's Declaration of God's Wisdom and Power (Chs. xxv. and xxvi.)
• The Last Clash-Between Job and Zophar (Ch. xxvii.)
• Job's Great Defence and His Last Appeal (Chs. xxix.-xxxi.)
• Act IV
• The Answer of the Almighty (Chs. xxxviii., xxxix., xl. 2, 8-14)
• Job's Humble and Penitent Reply (Ch. xl. 3-5, xlii. 2-6)
• The Epilogue
• The Restoration of Job (Ch. xiii. 7-17)
• Elihu's Interpretation of Suffering (Chs. xxxii.-xxxvii.)
• The Mystery of the Divine Wisdom (Ch. xxviii.)
• The Conclusion of the Whole Matter
• Bibliography
• Index

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