Passage Research
Job 30 — Sermon Preparation
Job contrasts his former honor with his current misery — mocked by the lowest of society while God refuses to answer his cry. Below is a research summary for Job 30, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 31
- verses
- 227 / 168
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 6
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Job 30 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עָרַק | ʻâraq | H6207 | 2 | gnaw, eat |
| שׁוֹא | shôwʼ | H7722 | 2 | tempest, devastation |
| שָׁוַע | shâvaʻ | H7768 | 2 | be free, halloo |
| עֳנִי | ʻŏnîy | H6040 | 2 | depression, misery |
| שִׂיחַ | sîyach | H7880 | 2 | shoot, shrubbery |
| שָׁלַח | shâlach | H7971 | 3 | send |
| הָפַךְ | hâphak | H2015 | 2 | turn, change |
How preachers through history handled this text
6 public-domain excerpts on Job 30, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried as in a tempest, and is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something with which Job comforts himself, yet it is but a little. He foresees that death will be the end of all his troubles. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Job 30:15–31 (Public Domain)
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