Passage Research
Job 37 — Sermon Preparation
Elihu closes with a thunderous catalogue of God at work in snow and ice and storm, calling Job to stand and consider God's wonders. Below is a research summary for Job 37, 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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- classic sermon excerpts
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- preachers & commentators
Job 37 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| קוֹל | qôwl | H6963 | 5 | voice, sound |
| אוֹר | ʼôwr | H216 | 4 | illumination, luminary |
| יָדַע | yâdaʻ | H3045 | 5 | know, seeing |
| אֵל | ʼêl | H410 | 3 | strength, mighty |
| רָעַם | râʻam | H7481 | 2 | tumble, be violently agitated |
| שַׁחַק | shachaq | H7834 | 2 | powder, beaten |
| עָב | ʻâb | H5645 | 2 | envelope, darkness |
How preachers through history handled this text
6 public-domain excerpts on Job 37, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“The changes of the weather are the subject of a great deal of our thoughts and common talk; but how seldom do we think and speak of these things, as Elihu, with a regard to God, the director of them! We must notice the glory of God, not only in the thunder and lightning, but in the more common and less awful changes of the weather; as the snow and rain. Nature directs all creatures to shelter themselves from a storm; and shall man only be unprovided with a refuge? …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Job 37:1–13 (Public Domain)
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