answered and said. replied and said. The idiom (App-6) requires that the first verb (where nothing has been as yet said) must be rendered according to the context: "spake", "prayed", "began", "concluded", &c. Here it. replied and said. See note on Deuteronomy 1:41.
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Job 4:1
1 Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,