the Third Week after Easter
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Job 4:15
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I felt a draft on my face,and the hair on my body stood up.
Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.
Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end.
Then a breath of air passes by my face; it makes the hair of my flesh stand up.
"Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair on my skin stood on end!
"Then a spirit passed by my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.
Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.
And the wind passed before me, and made the heares of my flesh to stande vp.
Then a spirit swept by my face;The hair of my flesh bristled up.
Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.
and my hair stood on end, as a wind blew past my face.
Then a spirit passed in front of my face; the hair of my flesh stood on end.
And a spirit passed before my face—the hair of my flesh stood up—
A spirit passed by my face. The hair on my body stood up!
Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
A light breeze touched my face, and my skin crawled with fright.
And a spirit glided before my face; the hair of my flesh bristled.
Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up;
And when the wynde passed ouer by me, the hayres of my flesh stode vp.
Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.
And a breath was moving over my face; the hair of my flesh became stiff:
The winde passed by before my presence, and made the heeres of my fleshe to stande vp.
Then a spirit passed before my face, that made the hair of my flesh to stand up.
Then a spirit passed before my face: the haire of my flesh stood vp.
And a spirit came before my face; and my hair and flesh quivered.
Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
And whanne the spirit `yede in my presence, the heiris of `my fleisch hadden hidousnesse.
Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.
Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
A spirit swept past my face, and my hair stood on end.
A spirit passed by my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.
A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh bristled.
Then, a spirit, over my face, floated along, The hair of my flesh bristled-up:
And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.
A spirit glided past my face; the hair of my flesh stood up.
And a spirit before my face doth pass, Stand up doth the hair of my flesh;
"Then a spirit passed by my face; The hair of my flesh bristled up.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a spirit: Psalms 104:4, Matthew 14:26, Luke 24:37-39, Hebrews 1:7, Hebrews 1:14
the hair: Isaiah 13:8, Isaiah 21:3, Isaiah 21:4, Daniel 5:6
Reciprocal: Luke 1:12 - he Acts 10:3 - saw
Cross-References
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Then Lamech seventy-sevenfold."
"And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
"Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.
then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
then I also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
And also the word of the LORD came by the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the LORD in provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he killed them.
Do not slay them, lest my people forget; Scatter them by Your power, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.
And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosom Their reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.
Yet when he is found, he must restore sevenfold; He may have to give up all the substance of his house.
and the LORD said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Then a spirit passed before my face,.... Which some interpret of a wind q, a blustering wind, that blew strong in his face; and so the Targum renders it, a stormy wind, such an one as Elijah perceived when the Lord spoke to him, though he was not in that, 1 Kings 19:11; or such a whirlwind, out of which the Lord spake to Job, Job 38:1; or rather, as Jarchi, an angel, an immaterial spirit, one of Jehovah's ministering spirits, clothed in an human form, and which passed and repassed before Eliphaz, that he might take notice of it:
the hair of my flesh stood up; erect, through surprise and dread; which is sometimes the case, when anything astonishing and terrible is beheld; the blood at such times making its way to the heart, for the preservation of that, leaves the external members of the body cold, and the skin of the flesh, in which the hair is, being contracted by the impetuous influx of the nervous fluid, causes the hair to stand upright, particularly the hair of the head, like the prickles or hedgehogs r; which has been usual at the sight of an apparition s.
q רוח "ventus", Vatablus, Cocceius, Schmidt, Broughton. r "Obstupui, steteruntque comae----". Virgil. Aeneid. l. 2. ver. 774. & l. 3. ver. 48. "arrectaeque horrore comae". Aeneid. 4. ver. 286. & l. 12. ver. 888. s Vid. Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. p. 665.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Then a spirit passed before my face - He does not intimate whether it was the spirit of a man, or an angel who thus appeared. The belief in such apparitions was common in the early ages, and indeed has prevailed at all times. No one can demonstrate that God could not communicate his will in such a manner as this, or by a messenger deputed from his immediate presence to impart valuable truth to people.
The hair of my flesh stood up - This is an effect which is known often to be produced by fear. Sometimes the hair is made to turn white almost in an instant, as an effect of sudden alarm; but usually the effect is to make it stand on end. Seneca uses language remarkably similar to this in describing the effect of fear, in Hercule Oetoeo:
Vagus per artus errat excussos tremor;
Erectus horret crinis. Impulsis adhuc
Star terror animis. et cor attonitum salit,
Pavidumque trepidis palpitat venis jecur.
So Virgil,
Steteruntque comae, et vox faucibus haesit.
Aeneid ii. 774.
See also Aeneid iii. 48, iv. 289. So also Aeneid xii. 868:
Arrectaeque horrore comae.
A similar description of the effect of fear is given in the Ghost’s speech to Hamlet:
“But that I am forbid
To tell the secrets of my prison-house,
I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood.
Make thy two eyes like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotty and combined locks to part,
And each particular hair to stand on end,
Like quills upon the fretful porcupine.”
The fact here referred to - that fear or fright; causes the hair to stand on end - is too well established, and too common to admit a doubt. The cause may be, that sudden fear has the effect to drive the blood to the heart, as the seat of vitality, and the extremities are left cold, and the skin thus contracts, and the effect is to raise the hair.
