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Job 31 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for Job 31, 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 31 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
אָכַל ʼâkal H398 5 eat
אַחֵר ʼachêr H312 3 hinder, next
רָאָה râʼâh H7200 4 see
עָוֺן ʻâvôn H5771 3 perversity, evil
אֵל ʼêl H410 3 strength, mighty
שָׁרַשׁ shârash H8327 2 root, strike into the soil
צַעַד tsaʻad H6806 2 pace, regular step

How preachers through history handled this text

7 public-domain excerpts on Job 31, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Matthew Henry 6 John Wesley 1

“Job protests, 1. That he never set his heart upon the wealth of this world. How few prosperous professors can appeal to the Lord, that they have not rejoiced because their gains were great! Through the determination to be rich, numbers ruin their souls, or pierce themselves with many sorrows. 2. He never was guilty of idolatry. The source of idolatry is in the heart, and it corrupts men, and provokes God to send judgments upon a nation. 3. He neither desired nor delighted in the hurt of the worst enemy he had. …”

— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Job 31:24–32 (Public Domain)

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