Passage Research
Job 15 — Sermon Preparation
Eliphaz returns with a sharper accusation, charging Job with undermining reverence for God through arrogant and crafty arguments. Below is a research summary for Job 15, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
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- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Job 15 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֵל | ʼêl | H410 | 4 | strength, mighty |
| פֶּה | peh | H6310 | 4 | mouth, blowing |
| חֹשֶׁךְ | chôshek | H2822 | 3 | dark, darkness |
| אָמַן | ʼâman | H539 | 3 | build up, support |
| רוּחַ | rûwach | H7307 | 3 | wind, breath |
| עָנָה | ʻânâh | H6030 | 3 | eye, heed |
| גָּרַע | gâraʻ | H1639 | 2 | scrape, shave |
How preachers through history handled this text
6 public-domain excerpts on Job 15, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Eliphaz maintains that the wicked are certainly miserable: whence he would infer, that the miserable are certainly wicked, and therefore Job was so. But because many of God's people have prospered in this world, it does not therefore follow that those who are crossed and made poor, as Job, are not God's people. Eliphaz shows also that wicked people, particularly oppressors, are subject to continual terror, live very uncomfortably, and perish very miserably. Will the prosperity of presumptuous sinners end miserably as here described? …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Job 15:17–35 (Public Domain)
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