Passage Research
Job 8 — Sermon Preparation
Bildad argues that Job's children died for their own sin and that God does not reject the blameless man who earnestly seeks him. Below is a research summary for Job 8, 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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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
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- classic sermon excerpts
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- preachers & commentators
Job 8 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אֵל | ʼêl | H410 | 4 | strength, mighty |
| שָׂגָה | sâgâh | H7685 | 2 | enlarge |
| עָוַת | ʻâvath | H5791 | 2 | wrest |
| שַׁדַּי | Shadday | H7706 | 2 | Almighty |
| צֶדֶק | tsedeq | H6664 | 2 | right, equity |
| חָזַק | châzaq | H2388 | 2 | fasten, seize |
| פֶּה | peh | H6310 | 2 | mouth, blowing |
How preachers through history handled this text
8 public-domain excerpts on Job 8, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Bildad discourses well of hypocrites and evil-doers, and the fatal end of all their hopes and joys. He proves this truth of the destruction of the hopes and joys of hypocrites, by an appeal to former times. Bildad refers to the testimony of the ancients. Those teach best that utter words out of their heart, that speak from an experience of spiritual and divine things. A rush growing in fenny ground, looking very green, but withering in dry weather, represents the hypocrite's profession, which is maintained only in times of prosperity. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Job 8:8–19 (Public Domain)
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