Passage Research
Job 26 — Sermon Preparation
Job answers Bildad with a majestic hymn to God's power over the deep, stretching the north over chaos and suspending the earth over nothing. Below is a research summary for Job 26, 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
- 4
- classic sermon excerpts
- 2
- preachers & commentators
Job 26 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מַיִם | mayim | H4325 | 3 | water, juice |
| עָנָן | ʻânân | H6051 | 2 | cloud, covering |
| כֹּחַ | kôach | H3581 | 2 | vigor, large lizard |
| שָׁמַיִם | shâmayim | H8064 | 2 | sky, aloft |
| פַּרְשֵׁז | parshêz | H6576 | 1 | expand |
| רוּף | rûwph | H7322 | 1 | triturate, agitate |
| שִׁפְרָה | shiphrâh | H8235 | 1 | brightness |
How preachers through history handled this text
4 public-domain excerpts on Job 26, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“This is Job's short reply to Bildad's short discourse, in which he is so far from contradicting him that he confirms what he had said, and out-does him in magnifying God and setting forth his power, to show what reason he had still to say, as he did (ch. xiii. 2), "What you know, the same do I know also." I. He shows that Bildad's discourse was foreign to the matter he was discoursing of--though very true and good, yet not to the purpose, ver. 2-4. II. That it was needless to the person he was discoursing with; …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Job 26:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Zaphon 2— Job 26:7
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