Passage Research
Job 25 — Sermon Preparation
Bildad closes briefly with a hymn to God's vast dominion, asking how any mortal born of woman can be righteous before such majesty. Below is a research summary for Job 25, 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
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- preachers & commentators
Job 25 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֱנוֹשׁ | ʼĕnôwsh | H582 | 2 | mortal, man |
| אָהַל | ʼâhal | H166 | 1 | be clear |
| זָכַךְ | zâkak | H2141 | 1 | be transparent, clean |
| בִּלְדַּד | Bildad | H1085 | 1 | Bildad |
| שׁוּחִי | Shûwchîy | H7747 | 1 | Shuchite |
| רִמָּה | rimmâh | H7415 | 1 | maggot, bred |
| זָכָה | zâkâh | H2135 | 1 | be translucent, be innocent |
How preachers through history handled this text
2 public-domain excerpts on Job 25, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Bildad here makes a very short reply to Job's last discourse, as one that began to be tired of the cause. He drops the main question concerning the prosperity of wicked men, as being unable to answer the proofs Job had produced in the foregoing chapter: but, because he thought Job had made too bold with the divine majesty in his appeals to the divine tribunal (ch. xxiii.), he in a few words shows the infinite distance there is between God and man, teaching us, I. To think highly and honourably of God, ver. 2, 3, 5. II. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Job 25:1–30 (Public Domain)
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