The Book of Job [EPUB ebook] 
Annotated & Explained

Foreword vii
Introduction xi

The Prose Framework: Opening 1
Chapter 1 3
Chapter 2 9

Job’s Curse 13
Chapter 3 15

The First Dialogue Cycle 19
Chapter 4 21
Chapter 5 25
Chapter 6 29
Chapter 7 35
Chapter 8 39
Chapter 9 43
Chapter 10 49
Chapter 11 53
Chapter 12 57
Chapter 13 61
Chapter 14 65

The Second Dialogue Cycle 69
Chapter 15 71
Chapter 16 77
Chapter 17 81
Chapter 18 85
Chapter 19 89
Chapter 20 95
Chapter 21 99

The Third Dialogue Cycle 105
Chapter 22 107
Chapter 23 111
Chapter 24 115
Chapter 25 119
Chapter 26 123
Chapter 27 125
Chapter 28 129

Job’s Final Speeches 133
Chapter 29 135
Chapter 30 139
Chapter 31 145

The Elihu Explosion 151
Chapter 32 153
Chapter 33 157
Chapter 34 163
Chapter 35 169
Chapter 36 173
Chapter 37 179

The Answer of God from the Storm 183
Chapter 38 185
Chapter 39 191
Chapter 40 197
Chapter 41 201

Job’s Final Reply 207
Chapter 42 (verses 1–6) 209

The Prose Framework: Closing 211
Chapter 42 (verses 7–17) 213

Acknowledgments 214
Suggestions for Further Reading 215

Dr. Marc Zvi Brettler is the Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies at Brandeis University. He contributed to all volumes of the My People’s Prayer Book: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries series, winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and to My People’s Passover Haggadah: Traditional Texts, Modern Commentaries; Who by Fire, Who by Water—Un’taneh Tokef; All These Vows—Kol Nidre; May God Remember: Memory and Memorializing in Judaism—Yizkor; and We Have Sinned: Sin and Confession in Judaism—Ashamnu and Al Chet (all Jewish Lights). He is coeditor of The Jewish Annotated New Testament and The Jewish Study Bible, which won the National Jewish Book Award; co-author of The Bible and the Believer; and author of How to Read the Jewish Bible, among other books and articles. He has also been interviewed on National Public Radio’s Fresh Air by Terry Gross.