Passage Research
Job 23 — Sermon Preparation
Job longs to find God and lay his case before him, but searches east and west, north and south, only to find him hidden and inaccessible. Below is a research summary for Job 23, 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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- classic sermon excerpts
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- preachers & commentators
Job 23 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בִּין | bîyn | H995 | 3 | separate, distinguish |
| בָּהַל | bâhal | H926 | 2 | tremble, palpitate |
| יָדַע | yâdaʻ | H3045 | 3 | know, seeing |
| חֹק | chôq | H2706 | 2 | enactment, appointment |
| עָנָה | ʻânâh | H6030 | 2 | eye, heed |
| רַב | rab | H7227 | 2 | abundant |
| פֶּה | peh | H6310 | 2 | mouth, blowing |
How preachers through history handled this text
13 public-domain excerpts on Job 23, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“As Job does not once question but that his trials are from the hand of God, and that there is no such thing as chance, how does he account for them? The principle on which he views them is, that the hope and reward of the faithful servants of God are only laid up in another life; and he maintains that it is plain to all, that the wicked are not treated according to their deserts in this life, but often directly the reverse. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Job 23:13–30 (Public Domain)
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