Passage Research
Job 18 — Sermon Preparation
Bildad delivers a vivid portrait of the wicked man whose light is snuffed out, trapped in his own net, his memory erased from the earth. Below is a research summary for Job 18, 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
- 6
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Job 18 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אוֹר | ʼôwr | H216 | 3 | illumination, luminary |
| דָּעַךְ | dâʻak | H1846 | 2 | be extinguished, expire |
| בַּלָּהָה | ballâhâh | H1091 | 2 | alarm, destruction |
| אֹהֶל | ʼôhel | H168 | 3 | tent |
| אוֹן | ʼôwn | H202 | 2 | ability, power |
| אָחַז | ʼâchaz | H270 | 2 | seize |
| בַּד | bad | H905 | 2 | separation, part |
How preachers through history handled this text
6 public-domain excerpts on Job 18, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Bildad describes the destruction wicked people are kept for, in the other world, and which in some degree, often seizes them in this world. The way of sin is the way of fear, and leads to everlasting confusion, of which the present terrors of an impure conscience are earnests, as in Cain and Judas. Miserable indeed is a wicked man's death, how secure soever his life was. See him dying; all that he trusts to for his support shall be taken from him. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Job 18:11–30 (Public Domain)
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