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Job 27 — Sermon Preparation
Job swears by the living God that he will never surrender his integrity, then describes the desolate end awaiting the wicked man. Below is a research summary for Job 27, 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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Job 27 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שַׁדַּי | Shadday | H7706 | 4 | Almighty |
| אֵל | ʼêl | H410 | 4 | strength, mighty |
| אֱלוֹהַּ | ʼĕlôwahh | H433 | 3 | deity, Deity |
| בָּרַח | bârach | H1272 | 2 | bolt, flee |
| כּוּן | kûwn | H3559 | 2 | be erect, set up |
| רָשָׁע | râshâʻ | H7563 | 2 | wrong, bad |
| סוּר | çûwr | H5493 | 2 | turn |
How preachers through history handled this text
10 public-domain excerpts on Job 27, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light. Death to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but, to a wicked man, it is like a storm, that hurries him away to destruction. While he lived, he had the benefit of sparing mercy; …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Job 27:11–30 (Public Domain)
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