Job Chapter 4 verse 15 Holy Bible
Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.
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And a breath was moving over my face; the hair of my flesh became stiff:
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And a spirit passed before my face -- the hair of my flesh stood up --
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Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
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Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
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Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.
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And a spirit before my face doth pass, Stand up doth the hair of my flesh;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - Then a spirit passed before my face. It has been argued (Rosenmuller) that "a breath of air," and not "a spirit," is intended; but, in that ease, how are we to understand the expressions in the following verse: "it stood still," "the form thereof," "an image"? A breath of air, the very essence of which is to be in motion, cannot stand still, nor has it any "form," "appearance," or "imago." Granted that the Hebrew ruakh (רוח) may mean - like the Greek πνεῦμα, and the Latin spiritus - either an actual spirit, or a breath, a wind, it follows that, in every place where it occurs, we must judge by the context which is meant. Here certainly the context points to an actual living spirit, as what Eliphaz intended. Whether a spirit really appeared to him is a separate question. The whole may have been a vision; but certainly the impression left on Eliphaz was that he had had a communication from the spirit-world. The hair of my flesh stood up. Not the hair of his head only, but every hair on his whole body, stiffened, bristled, and rose up on end in horror (see the comment on ver. 14).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) A spirit passed before my face.--It is vain to argue from this passage that spiritual essences are capable of being seen by the bodily eye, because, first of all, the language is highly figurative and poetical, and because, secondly, every one understands that a spiritual manifestation can be made only to the spirit. The notion, therefore, of seeing a spirit is absurd in itself, because it involves the idea of seeing the invisible; but it is conceivable that the perceptions of the inner spirit may be so vivid as to assume the character of outward manifestations.
