Passage Research
Job 11 — Sermon Preparation
Zophar rebukes Job's empty words, insisting that God's wisdom is beyond searching and that Job's hidden sin must be the cause of his suffering. Below is a research summary for Job 11, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 20
- verses
- 148 / 115
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 6
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Job 11 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֱלוֹהַּ | ʼĕlôwahh | H433 | 3 | deity, Deity |
| מַת | math | H4962 | 2 | adult, man |
| תִּקְוָה | tiqvâh | H8615 | 2 | cord, attachment |
| יָדַע | yâdaʻ | H3045 | 3 | know, seeing |
| אָוֶן | ʼâven | H205 | 2 | nothingness, trouble |
| שָׂפָה | sâphâh | H8193 | 2 | lip, language |
| עָנָה | ʻânâh | H6030 | 2 | eye, heed |
How preachers through history handled this text
6 public-domain excerpts on Job 11, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Zophar exhorts Job to repentance, and gives him encouragement, yet mixed with hard thoughts of him. He thought that worldly prosperity was always the lot of the righteous, and that Job was to be deemed a hypocrite unless his prosperity was restored. Then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; that is, thou mayst come boldly to the throne of grace, and not with the terror and amazement expressed in ch. 9:34. If we are looked upon in the face of the Anointed, our faces that were cast down may be lifted up; …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Job 11:13–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Naamah 2— Job 11:1
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