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Job 21Why Do the Wicked Prosper?

Job challenges the claim that wicked people always suffer.

Why Do the Wicked Prosper?: a painted scene illustrating Job 21.

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Job, chapter by chapter

1. Job's Great Loss
2. Job's Affliction
3. Job Curses the Day of His Birth
4. Eliphaz Speaks
5. Eliphaz Calls Job to Repentance
6. Job Defends His Lament
7. Job Questions God
8. Bildad Speaks
9. Job Longs for an Arbiter
10. Job Pleads with God
11. Zophar Rebukes Job
12. God's Wisdom Is Greater
13. Job Takes His Case to God
14. The Brevity of Life
15. Eliphaz Accuses Job Again
16. Miserable Comforters
17. Job's Despair
18. Bildad Describes the Wicked
19. My Redeemer Lives
20. The Wicked Will Perish
21. Why Do the Wicked Prosper?
22. Eliphaz's False Accusation
23. Job Seeks God
24. Why Does God Delay Judgment?
25. The Greatness of God
26. Job Praises God's Power
27. Job Maintains His Integrity
28. The Search for Wisdom
29. Job's Former Glory
30. Job's Present Humiliation
31. Job's Final Defense
32. Elihu Begins to Speak
33. God Speaks Through Suffering
34. God Is Just
35. God Is Greater Than Man
36. The Greatness of God
37. God's Majesty in the Storm
38. God Answers from the Whirlwind
39. God's Creatures and Wisdom
40. Job Humbles Himself
41. Leviathan
42. Job Repents and Is Restored

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