--- title: "Book of Job: Summary & All 42 Chapters · Bless" url: https://blessbible.app/bible/job/ description: "The Book of Job, a wisdom drama in 42 chapters. Bp. Challoner’s summary of all 42 chapters, and the full text free." --- Old Testament # The Book of Job The Book of Job is the twentieth of the 46 books of the Old Testament: 42 chapters and 1,070 verses. [Start reading: Job 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/1/) Chapters 1–42: [1](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/1/) … [42](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/42/) ## About Job About Job · Wisdom drama Job is a long poem wrapped in an old story: a blameless man loses everything, and then argues with his comforters — and with God — about why. Its author is unknown and its date much debated; it stands apart from Israel's history and speaks for sufferers everywhere. It was written against the easy doctrine that pain is always punishment, and it lets Job say things to God that pious books would never allow, then lets God answer from the whirlwind. The book ends not with an explanation but with an encounter, which is its deepest teaching. *Job in Bless* | | | |---|---| | Testament | Old Testament — book 20 of 46, 20 of 73 in the Bible | | Canon | Protocanonical (in every Christian canon) | | Chapters | 42 | | Verses | 1,070, as Bless numbers them | | Latin | Clementine Vulgate, every chapter | | Bp. Challoner | Summaries of all 42 chapters · 40 notes | | Catechism | 7 paragraphs cite it | Chapter by chapter ## All 42 chapters, *in brief.* Bishop Richard Challoner’s summary of each chapter, from his revision of the Douay-Rheims (1749–52). Open a chapter for the full text. 1. ### [Job 1](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/1/) 22 verses Job's virtue and riches. Satan by permission from God strippeth him of all his substance. His patience. 2. ### [Job 2](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/2/) 13 verses Satan, by God's permission, striketh Job with ulcers from head to foot: his patience is still invincible. 3. ### [Job 3](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/3/) 26 verses Job expresses his sense of the miseries of man's life, by cursing the day of his birth. 4. ### [Job 4](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/4/) 21 verses Eliphaz charges Job with impatience, and pretends that God never afflicts the innocent. 5. ### [Job 5](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/5/) 27 verses Eliphaz proceeds in his charge, and exhorts Job to acknowledge his sins. 6. ### [Job 6](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/6/) 30 verses Job maintains his innocence, and compalins of his friends. 7. ### [Job 7](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/7/) 21 verses Job declares the miseries of man's life: and addresses himself to God. 8. ### [Job 8](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/8/) 22 verses Baldad, under pretence of defending the justice of God, accuses Job, and exhorts him to return to God. 9. ### [Job 9](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/9/) 35 verses Job acknowledges God's justice: although He often afflicts the innocent. 10. ### [Job 10](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/10/) 22 verses Job lements his afflictions and begs to be delivered. 11. ### [Job 11](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/11/) 20 verses Sophar reproves Job, for justifying himself, and invites him to repentance. 12. ### [Job 12](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/12/) 25 verses Job's reply to Sophar. He extols God's power and wisdom. 13. ### [Job 13](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/13/) 28 verses Job persists in maintaining his innocence: and reproves his friends. 14. ### [Job 14](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/14/) 22 verses Job declares the shortness of man's days: and professes his belief of a resurrection. 15. ### [Job 15](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/15/) 35 verses Eliphaz returns to the charge against Job, and describes the wretched state of the wicked. 16. ### [Job 16](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/16/) 23 verses Job expostulates with his friends: and appeals to the judgment of God. 17. ### [Job 17](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/17/) 16 verses Job's hope in God: he expects rest in death. 18. ### [Job 18](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/18/) 21 verses Baldad again reproves Job and describes the miseries of the wicked. 19. ### [Job 19](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/19/) 29 verses Job complains of the cruelty of his friends; he describes his own sufferings: and his belief of a future resurrection. 20. ### [Job 20](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/20/) 29 verses Sophar declares the shortness of the prosperity of the wicked: and their sudden downfall. 21. ### [Job 21](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/21/) 34 verses Job shews that the wicked often prosper in this world, even to the end of their life: but that their judgment is in another world. 22. ### [Job 22](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/22/) 30 verses Eliphaz falsely imputes many crimes to Job, but promises him prosperity if he will repent. 23. ### [Job 23](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/23/) 17 verses Job wishes to be tried at God's tribunal. 24. ### [Job 24](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/24/) 25 verses God's providence often suffers the wicked to go on a long time in their sins: but punisheth them in another life. 25. ### [Job 25](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/25/) 6 verses God's providence often suffers the wicked to go on a long time in their sins: but punisheth them in another life. 26. ### [Job 26](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/26/) 14 verses Job declares his sentiments of the wisdom and power of God. 27. ### [Job 27](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/27/) 23 verses Job persists in asserting his own innocence, and that hypocrites will be punished in the end. 28. ### [Job 28](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/28/) 28 verses Man's industry searcheth out many things: true wisdom is taught by God alone. 29. ### [Job 29](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/29/) 25 verses Job relates his former happiness, and the respect that all men shewed him. 30. ### [Job 30](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/30/) 31 verses Job shews the wonderful change of his temporal estate, from welfare to great calamity. 31. ### [Job 31](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/31/) 40 verses Job, to defend himself from the unjust judgments of his friends, gives a sincere account of his own virtues. 32. ### [Job 32](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/32/) 22 verses Eliu is angry with Job and his friends. He boasts of himself. 33. ### [Job 33](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/33/) 33 verses Eliu blames Job for asserting his own innocence. 34. ### [Job 34](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/34/) 37 verses Eliu charges Job with blasphemy: and sets forth the power and justice of God. 35. ### [Job 35](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/35/) 16 verses Eliu declares that the good or evil done by man cannot reach God. 36. ### [Job 36](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/36/) 33 verses Eliu proceeds in setting forth the justice and power of God. 37. ### [Job 37](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/37/) 24 verses Eliu goes on in his discourse, shewing God's wisdom and power, by his wonderful works. 38. ### [Job 38](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/38/) 41 verses God interposes and shews from the things he hath made, that man cannot comprehend his power and wisdom. 39. ### [Job 39](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/39/) 35 verses The wonders of the power and providence of God in many of his creatures. 40. ### [Job 40](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/40/) 28 verses Of the power of God in the behemoth and the leviathan. 41. ### [Job 41](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/41/) 25 verses A further description of the leviathan. 42. ### [Job 42](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/42/) 16 verses Job submits himself. God pronounces in his favour. Job offers sacrifice for his friends. He is blessed with riches and children, and dies happily, Bp. Richard Challoner · chapter summaries Coming up ## Read at *Mass.* From October 29, 2026 to October 28, 2027, Job is read at the principal Mass on 2 days in the US calendar. The next 8 readings: | Date | Celebration | Reading | Citation | |---|---|---|---| | [Sun, Feb 7, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/02/07/) | Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time | First Reading | [Job 7:1-4, 6-7](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/7/) | | [Sun, Jun 20, 2027](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2027/06/20/) computed | Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time | First Reading | [Job 38:1, 8-11](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/38/) | | [Mon, Oct 2, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/10/02/) computed | Holy Guardian Angels | First Reading | [Job 1:6-22](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/1/) | | [Tue, Oct 3, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/10/03/) computed | Tuesday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time | First Reading | [Job 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/3/) | | [Wed, Oct 4, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/10/04/) computed | St. Francis of Assisi | First Reading | [Job 9:1-12, 14-16](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/9/) | | [Thu, Oct 5, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/10/05/) computed | Thursday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time | First Reading | [Job 19:21-27](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/19/) | | [Fri, Oct 6, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/10/06/) computed | Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time | First Reading | [Job 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/38/) | | [Sat, Oct 7, 2028](https://blessbible.app/calendar/2028/10/07/) computed | Our Lady of the Rosary | First Reading | [Job 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17](https://blessbible.app/bible/job/42/) | Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). 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