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Job 27 — Sermon Preparation

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.

Matthew Henry 4 Jonathan Edwards 3 Spurgeon 2 John Wesley 1

“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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