Job 4:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Then, Heb. and, or for, as this particle is oft used. So this was the reason of the foregoing thoughts and fear. A spirit; an angel in some visible shape, otherwise he could not have discerned it, nor would have been affrighted at it. The hair of my flesh, i.e. of my body, as flesh is taken, Genesis 2:24 Psalms 16:9, Psalms 119:120. Stood up, through that excessive horror caused by so glorious, unusual, and terrible a presence; which God used to excite in men upon such occasions, to convince them that it was not a vain imagination or illusion, but a real vision and revelation, and that from God.