Passage Research
Job 1 — Sermon Preparation
Satan challenges God's estimate of Job, and in a single day Job loses his children and possessions yet does not sin with his lips. Below is a research summary for Job 1, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 22
- verses
- 345 / 141
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 13
- classic sermon excerpts
- 5
- preachers & commentators
Job 1 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אִיּוֹב | ʼÎyôwb | H347 | 9 | Ijob |
| שָׂטָן | sâṭân | H7854 | 7 | opponent, Satan |
| מָלַט | mâlaṭ | H4422 | 4 | be smooth, escape |
| בַּד | bad | H905 | 4 | separation, part |
| נַעַר | naʻar | H5288 | 4 | boy, servant |
| בָּרַךְ | bârak | H1288 | 4 | kneel, bless |
| נָגַד | nâgad | H5046 | 4 | front, manifest |
How preachers through history handled this text
13 public-domain excerpts on Job 1, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Job humbled himself under the hand of God. He reasons from the common state of human life, which he describes. We brought nothing of this world's goods into the world, but have them from others; and it is certain we can carry nothing out, but must leave them to others. Job, under all his losses, is but reduced to his first state. He is but where he must have been at last, and is only unclothed, or unloaded rather, a little sooner than he expected. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Job 1:20–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Uz— Job 1:1
- Chaldea— Job 1:17
- East— Job 1:3
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