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Job 4:14

Job 4:14
Fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Fear came upon me - Margin, “Met me.” The Chaldee Paraphrase renders this, “a tempest,” זיקא. The Septuagint, φρίκη frikē - “shuddering,” or “horror.” The sense is, that he became greatly alarmed at…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Job 4:12-21

Eliphaz, having undertaken to convince Job of the sin and folly of his discontent and impatience, here vouches a vision he had been favoured with, which he relates to Job for his conviction. What…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Eliphaz depicts graphically the circumstances in which he received the message from heaven. In the dead night, in the midst of his perplexing thoughts upon his bed, a supernatural terror suddenly…