Commentary on Job
St. Thomas Aquinas
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Commentary on Job St. Thomas Aquinas
Aquinas's literal commentary on the Book of Job — composed at Orvieto during the years preparing the Summa Contra Gentiles . A theology of providence, suffering, and the integrity of the just man.
Contents Chapter 1 — Prologue 1 chapter Chapter 2 — The First Trial 4 chapters Chapter 3 — The Second Trial 2 chapters Chapter 4 — Job’s Lament 3 chapters Chapter 5 — The Discourse of Eliphaz 3 chapters Chapter 6 — The Discourse of Eliphaz Continues 3 chapters Chapter 7 — The Discourse of Job 2 chapters Chapter 8 — The Human Condition 4 chapters Chapter 9 — The Discourse of Bildad: The Allegory of the Rush 2 chapters Chapter 10 — The Problem of Evil 4 chapters Chapter 11 — The Special Problem of the Suffering of the Just 3 chapters Chapter 12 — Law and Divine Transcendance 2 chapters Chapter 13 — What Experience Teaches Us About God 2 chapters Chapter 14 — Prosperity and Adversity 2 chapters Chapter 15 — True Retribution 5 chapters Chapter 16 — New Condemnation of Job 3 chapters Chapter 17 — The Answer of Job to Eliphaz 2 chapters Chapter 18 — Job Counts on God’s Friendship 2 chapters Chapter 19 — The Inexorable Fate of the Wicked 2 chapters Chapter 20 — Job Answers Baldath 2 chapters Chapter 21 — Sophar’s Answer: A Future Life, but Punishments on Earth 2 chapters Chapter 22 — The Second Answer of Job to Sophar 2 chapters Chapter 23 — The Third Discourse of Eliphaz 2 chapters Chapter 24 — The Discourse of Job 1 chapter Chapter 25 — Job Continues 1 chapter Chapter 26 — The Short Answer of Baldath 1 chapter Chapter 27 — The Last Response of Job 1 chapter Chapter 28 — Job Continues his Answer 1 chapter Chapter 29 — Job Continues His Discourse in Praise of Wisdom 2 chapters Chapter 30 — Job Continues Recalling the Past 1 chapter Chapter 31 — The Discourse of Job Continues 1 chapter Chapter 32 — Job Seeks Justice 2 chapters Chapter 33 — The Discourse of Eliud 1 chapter Chapter 34 — Eliud Exhorts Job to Repentance 2 chapters Chapter 35 — Discourse on Divine Justice 2 chapters Chapter 36 — Eliud Continues His Discourse 1 chapter Chapter 37 — God Alone is Just 2 chapters Chapter 38 — Hymn to God 2 chapters Chapter 39 — God Resolves the Question 3 chapters Chapter 40 — God Continues His Discourse 1 chapter Chapter 41 — The Command of God over the Powers of Evil 3 chapters Chapter 42 — The Great Power of Satan 2 chapters Chapter 43 — Job’s Repentance 2 chapters Source: English translation by Brian Mullady OP and the Aquinas Institute. Mirrored from aquinas.cc. · Latin text from the Leonine / Marietti editions (public domain), mirrored from aquinas.cc.
