Literal Exposition on Job

Saint Thomas Aquinas
Literal Exposition on Job
Prologue
Chapter 1: The First Tribulation
Lesson 1: Introduction
Lesson 2: Satan's Petition
Lecture 3: Tribulation
Lecture 4: The Patience of Job
Chapter 2: The Second Tribulation
Lecture 1: Satan Tempts Job in His Flesh
Lecture 2: Job Is Humbled
Chapter 3: The Lamentation of Job
Lecture 1: Job Curses His Life
Lecture 2: Job Wishes to Rest in Peace with the Dead
Lecture 3: Like the Unhappy
Chapter 4: The Speech of Eliphaz
Lecture 1: On the Impatience of Job
Lecture 2: Job and His Family Are Justly Punished
Lecture 3: The Night Vision of Eliphaz
Chapter 5: Continuation of the Speech of Eliphaz
Lecture 1: Only the Guilty Are Punished
Lecture 2: Providence Governs the World
Lecture 3: God Will Forgive Job If He Acknowledges His Sin
Chapter 6: The Speech of Job
Lecture 1: Job Is Wounded by God and Desires Not to Be
Lecture 2: Job Perceives Himself to Be Betrayed by His Friends
Chapter 7: The Human Condition
Lecture 1: Life Is Warfare and Labor
Lecture 2: The Bitternesses of Life
Lecture 3: Job Deplores a Terrible Lot
Lecture 4: The Prayer of Job
Chapter 8: The Speech of Bildad: The Parable of the Rush
Lecture 1: God Is Just
Lecture 2: The Traditional Teaching on the Justice of God
Chapter 9: The Difficulty of Evil
Lecture 1: God Is Almighty
Lecture 2: God Is Omniscient
Lecture 3: Job Cannot Contend Against God
Lecture 4: The Cruel Lot of the Just and the Wicked
Chapter 10: The Special Difficulty of the Suffering of the Just
Lecture 1: Job Returns to Himself: The Creator Does Not Deny the Creature
Lecture 2: Has Job Been Blamed?
Lecture 3: Job Asks for a Little Time
Chapter 11: Law and Divine Transcendence
Lecture 1: The Infinite Magnificence of God
Lecture 2: The Great Infinity of God
Chapter 12: What Experience Teaches Us About God
Lecture 1: God Helps the Humble
Lecture 2: God Rules All Things
Chapter 13: Prosperity and Adversity
Lecture 1: The Perversity of Job’s Friends
Lecture 2: Job Asks God What Sorrows He Has
Chapter 14: True Retribution
Lecture 1: Wonder at Divine Care
Lecture 2: Hope for Another Life
Lecture 3: The Strength of the Tree and the Weakness of Man
Lecture 4: Awaiting Darkness and the Hope of Resurrection
Lecture 5: He Cannot Return from the Lower Regions
Chapter 15: A New Condemnation of Job
Lecture 1: The Pride and Presumption of Job
Lecture 2: Divine Punishment Is Inevitable
Lecture 3: The Unhappy End of the Evil
Chapter 16: Job’s Response to Eliphaz
Lecture 1: Again Job Describes His Tribulations
Lecture 2: The Promises of His Friends Are Vain
Chapter 17: Job Depends on the Friendship of God
Lecture 1: Job Calls upon God
Lecture 2: Job Ridicules His Friends
Chapter 18: The Inexorable Fate of the Worst
Lecture 1: The Response of Bildad
Lecture 2: The Sorrows of the Sinner
Chapter 19: Job Responds to Bildad
Lecture 1: A New Description of Unhappiness
Lecture 2: Job’s Profession of Faith: His Savior Lives
Chapter 20: Zophar’s Response: There Is a Future Life and Punishments in the World
Lecture 1: The Sinner’s Fortune Is Brief
Lecture 2: The Punishment of the Wicked
Chapter 21: Job’s Second Response to Zophar
Lecture 1: Why Do the Wicked Live?
Lecture 2: All Arrive at the Same End
Chapter 22: Eliphaz’s Third Speech
Lecture 1: Job’s Integrity Is Rebuked
Lecture 2: Return to the Almighty
Chapter 23: Job’s Speech
Lecture 1: Job Appeals to the Judgment of God
Chapter 24: Job Continues
Lecture 1: The Reconciliation of Evil with the Power and Wisdom of God
Chapter 25: The Brief Response of Bildad
Lecture 1: Man Is Not Pure in the Sight of God
Chapter 26: Job’s Final Response
Lecture 1: Man Cannot Understand God’s Power
Chapter 27: Job Continues His Response
Lecture 1: The Prosperity of the Wicked Is Not Contrary to Divine Providence
Chapter 28: Job Continues His Discourse in Praise of Wisdom
Lecture 1: Wisdom Is Not in a Determined Place
Lecture 2: Where Wisdom Is Found
Chapter 29: Job Continues to Recall His History
Lecture 1: The Happy Days of Job
Chapter 30: Job’s Speech Continues
Lecture 1: Present Sorrow
Chapter 31: Job Seeks Justice
Lecture 1: Job Is Chaste, Just, and Good
Lecture 2: Job Concludes His Defense
Chapter 32: The Speech of Elihu
Lecture 1: Introduction
Chapter 33: Elihu Exhorts Job to Penance
Lecture 1: What Job Must Confess
Lecture 2: God Teaches Men in Various Ways
Chapter 34: A Speech on Divine Justice
Lecture 1: God Is Just toward the Individual
Lecture 2: God Chastises the People
Chapter 35: Elihu Continues His Speech
Lecture 1: The Works of Men Are Not Indifferent to God
Chapter 36: God Alone Is Just
Lecture 1: The Truth about Job’s Tribulations
Lecture 2: A Hymn to the Almighty
Chapter 37: A Hymn to God
Lecture 1: The Wisdom of the Almighty
Lecture 2: Elihu Concludes His Praise of God
Chapter 38: God Determines the Question
Lecture 1: What Can Man Understand?
Lecture 2: The Wonders of God in Earth, Sea, and Air
Lecture 3: The Wonders of Animals
Chapter 39: God Continues His Speech
Lecture 1: The Wonders of Animals
Chapter 40: The Power of God over the Powerful Wicked
Lecture 1: God Strengthens Job in His Weakness
Lecture 2: <i>Behemoth</i>, or the Elephant, as a Figure of the Devil
Lecture 3: Leviathan as a Figure of the Devil
Chapter 41: The Great Power of Satan
Lecture 1: God Cannot Be Chastised
Lecture 2: How Satan Works in Sinners
Chapter 42: The Repentance of Job
Lecture 1: Job Answered the Lord
Lecture 2: Epilogue - The Reward of Job