Passage Research
Job 9 — Sermon Preparation
Job acknowledges God's overwhelming power but despairs that there is no one to arbitrate between them so he can argue his case. Below is a research summary for Job 9, 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 9 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עָנָה | ʻânâh | H6030 | 6 | eye, heed |
| תָּם | tâm | H8535 | 3 | complete, pious |
| צָדַק | tsâdaq | H6663 | 3 | be, make |
| יָדַע | yâdaʻ | H3045 | 4 | know, seeing |
| אַמִּיץ | ʼammîyts | H533 | 2 | strong, strength |
| חָלַף | châlaph | H2498 | 2 | slide, hasten |
| רָשַׁע | râshaʻ | H7561 | 2 | be, do |
How preachers through history handled this text
11 public-domain excerpts on Job 9, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“In this answer Job declared that he did not doubt the justice of God, when he denied himself to be a hypocrite; for how should man be just with God? Before him he pleaded guilty of sins more than could be counted; and if God should contend with him in judgment, he could not justify one out of a thousand, of all the thoughts, words, and actions of his life; therefore he deserved worse than all his present sufferings. When Job mentions the wisdom and power of God, he forgets his complaints. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Job 9:1–13 (Public Domain)
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