Passage Research
Job 36 — Sermon Preparation
Elihu insists God uses affliction as instruction, opening ears through distress and rescuing those who listen and turn back to him. Below is a research summary for Job 36, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 33
- verses
- 240 / 158
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 8
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Job 36 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עֳנִי | ʻŏnîy | H6040 | 3 | depression, misery |
| דִּין | dîyn | H1777 | 3 | rule, judge |
| כֹּחַ | kôach | H3581 | 3 | vigor, large lizard |
| אֵל | ʼêl | H410 | 3 | strength, mighty |
| כַּבִּיר | kabbîyr | H3524 | 2 | vast, mighty |
| סוּת | çûwth | H5496 | 2 | prick, stimulate |
| גָּרַע | gâraʻ | H1639 | 2 | scrape, shave |
How preachers through history handled this text
8 public-domain excerpts on Job 36, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Elihu here shows that God acts as righteous Governor. He is always ready to defend those that are injured. If our eye is ever toward God in duty, his eye will be ever upon us in mercy, and, when we are at the lowest, will not overlook us. God intends, when he afflicts us, to discover past sins to us, and to bring them to our remembrance. Also, to dispose our hearts to be taught: affliction makes people willing to learn, through the grace of God working with and by it. And further, to deter us from sinning for the future. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Job 36:5–14 (Public Domain)
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