Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
Ver. 15. Then a spirit passed before my face] Some render it a wind, as a messenger or forerunner of God near at hand, as 1 Kings 19:11. But better, a good angel in some bodily shape, Psa 104:4 Luke 24:37; for else how could he be seen of Eliphaz, gliding rather than going, as a ship upon the face of the waters?
The hair of my flesh stood up] Horripilatus sum. In a fright the heart falleth down, the hair standeth up; the blood hastening to the heart to relieve it, as soldiers do to the castle when all is likely to be lost.
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