Job outline
Here is the full Book Outline of Job using your Sensus Plenior (SP) method—identifying the symbols of the cross, pericope boundaries, and how Job reveals Christ in suffering, the accuser, the voice of the flesh and the Spirit, and the final vindication through resurrection.
📘 Book Outline: Job[edit | edit source]
Job is the Gospel of Suffering. It reveals Christ as the righteous one, who is accused by Satan, rejected by men, and wrestles in silence and torment. In the end, God speaks, and resurrection life is restored. The story begins in heaven, descends into affliction, and ascends into glory.
📖 Job 1:1–22[edit | edit source]
Symbol: Heavenly courtroom—Christ offered
Pericope:
- Start: Job blameless and blessed
- Middle: Satan accuses
- End: Job loses everything
📖 Christ, the righteous one, is offered to be tested. Satan (the accuser) is allowed to touch all He has, but He does not sin.
📖 Job 2:1–13[edit | edit source]
Symbol: Flesh afflicted; silence of friends
Pericope:
- Start: Satan permitted to strike Job’s body
- Middle: Wife tells him to curse God
- End: Friends sit in silence
📖 The suffering deepens—Christ is made weak in the flesh, and the bride (wife) misunderstands. The three friends represent fleshly attempts to explain suffering.
📖 Job 3:1–26[edit | edit source]
Symbol: Lament = the cross cry
Pericope:
- Start: Job curses the day of birth
- Middle: Wishes for death
- End: Despair and dread
📖 This is the Psalm 22 moment: “Why?” The cry from the cross—not rebellion, but identification with our darkness.
📖 Job 4–31 (Dialogues with Eliphaz, Bildad, Zophar)[edit | edit source]
Symbol: Fleshly judgment and self-justification
Pericope:
- Start: Friends accuse
- Middle: Job defends his integrity
- End: Both parties stuck
📖 The flesh cannot understand grace. The friends preach a false gospel of works. Job seeks righteousness but has no mediator.
📖 Job 32–37 (Elihu speaks)[edit | edit source]
Symbol: Spirit testifies
Pericope:
- Start: Elihu burns with righteous zeal
- Middle: Declares God just
- End: Prepares the way for the Lord
📖 Elihu is a type of the Spirit—younger, overlooked, but bearing true witness. He speaks rightly about God and introduces the final Word.
📖 Job 38–41[edit | edit source]
Symbol: God answers from the whirlwind
Pericope:
- Start: “Who is this…?”
- Middle: Questions of creation and power
- End: Leviathan revealed
📖 God speaks—not to explain, but to reveal His majesty. Christ endures the cross without answer, but in full trust. Leviathan = death/Satan, whom only God can defeat.
📖 Job 42:1–17[edit | edit source]
Symbol: Repentance, mediation, and restoration
Pericope:
- Start: Job repents
- Middle: He intercedes for his friends
- End: Double restoration
📖 Christ, who suffered unjustly, becomes the intercessor for His accusers. His resurrection is the double portion—death reversed, blessing multiplied, the bride fruitful.
✅ Job Complete.
- Job = Christ in suffering
- Satan = the accuser, permitted to test
- Wife = flesh bride, not understanding the cross
- Friends = fleshly judgment, false righteousness
- Elihu = the Spirit testifying to truth
- Whirlwind = voice of God (like Sinai)
- Leviathan = death / Satan / chaos
- Restoration = resurrection and intercession
