Four Upbuilding Discourses, 1843

Four Upbuilding Discourses is a book written by Søren Kierkegaard and published in December 1843.

Analysis

The first discourse is on the subject of the life of Job, and the other three are exhortations to the reader to the virtues exhibited by Job: faith, patience, and gratitude.
Kierkegaard throughout employs a strategy of repetition.
A few weeks before publishing the FUD Kierkegaard had published a tract entitled Repetition: A Venture in Experimenting Psychology.

Discourse 1: Job

The title of the first discourse is "The Lord gave, and the Lord took away; blessed be the name of the Lord.", a verse from the Book of Job.
The discourse recounts the story of Job's suffering, a topic shared with Repetition.
This is the only discourse of the four where Job is explicitly mentioned.

Discourses 2, 3, and 4: virtues

The title of the second discourse is "Every good and every perfect gift comes from above." and it deals with faith and doubt.
The third discourse deals with gratitude and generosity.
It also touches upon the idea of equality, specifically that everyone is equal "before God".
Written in the second person, addressing "you the reader" and stating that it is addressing someone who is already "favourably disposed" to the idea that gratitude and generosity actually are virtues in the first place, it comprises thirteen short stories of people going from lacking to exemplifying these virtues.
The title of the fourth and final discourse is "Gaining one's soul in patience." and deals with patience.
In the collected Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses this is followed by a second discourse on patience written in March 1844 and originally published in Kierkegaard's Two Upbuilding Discourses.
"Gaining one's soul" ends on a question, in fact on nested questions as the concluding paragraph begins with this question-within-a-question: