Passage Research
Job 16 — Sermon Preparation
Job calls his friends miserable comforters and appeals to a witness in heaven to testify on his behalf before God. Below is a research summary for Job 16, 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
- 7
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Job 16 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עָנָה | ʻânâh | H6030 | 3 | eye, heed |
| חָשַׂךְ | châsak | H2820 | 2 | restrain, refrain |
| פֶּרֶץ | perets | H6556 | 2 | break |
| אֱלוֹהַּ | ʼĕlôwahh | H433 | 2 | deity, Deity |
| עֵד | ʻêd | H5707 | 2 | witness, testimony |
| רֵעַ | rêaʻ | H7453 | 2 | associate |
| רַב | rab | H7227 | 2 | archer |
How preachers through history handled this text
7 public-domain excerpts on Job 16, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Job's condition was very deplorable; but he had the testimony of his conscience for him, that he never allowed himself in any gross sin. No one was ever more ready to acknowledge sins of infirmity. Eliphaz had charged him with hypocrisy in religion, but he specifies prayer, the great act of religion, and professes that in this he was pure, though not from all infirmity. He had a God to go to, who he doubted not took full notice of all his sorrows. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Job 16:17–30 (Public Domain)
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