1. You can preach VERSE BY VERSE through the entire book that will be very taxing for you and your people. Steven Mathewson says several times that the dialogue section of Job is exhausting (Mathewson, The Art of Preaching Old Testament Poetry (p. 139). (Function). Kindle Edition). I preached through the entire book of Job once and my congregation was very patient and even appreciated sermons on a book they had never heard preached beyond chapters 1 and 2.