Job 4:15
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And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.

a spirit.

Psalm 104:4 Who makest thy angels spirits: and thy ministers a burning fire.

Matthew 14:26 And they seeing him walking upon the sea, were troubled, saying: It is an apparition. And they cried out for fear.

Luke 24:37-39 But they being troubled and frightened, supposed that they saw a spirit. . . .

Hebrews 1:7,14 And to the angels indeed he saith: He that maketh his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire. . . .

the hair.

Isaiah 13:8 And shall be broken. Gripings and pains, shall take hold of them, they shall be in pain as a woman in labour. Every one shall be amazed at his neighbour, their countenances shall be as faces burnt.

Isaiah 21:3,4 Therefore are my loins filled with pain, anguish hath taken hold of me, as the anguish of a woman in labour: I fell down at the hearing of it, I was troubled at the seeing of it. . . .

Daniel 5:6 Then was the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him: and the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees struck one against the other.

Context
Eliphaz: The Innocent Prosper
14Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted: 15And when a spirit passed before me, the hair of my flesh stood up.16There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind.…
Cross References
Job 4:14
Fear seized upon me, and trembling, and all my bones were affrighted:

Job 4:16
There stood one whose countenance I knew not, an image before my eyes, and I heard the voice, as it were, of a gentle wind.

Daniel 10:11
And he said to me: Daniel, thou man of desires, understand the words that I speak to thee, and stand upright: for I am sent now to thee. And when he had said this word to me, I stood trembling.

Lexicon
Then a spirit
וְ֭רוּחַ (wə·rū·aḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7307: Wind, breath, exhalation, life, anger, unsubstantiality, a region of the sky, spirit

glided
יַחֲלֹ֑ף (ya·ḥă·lōp̄)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2498: To slide by, to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce, change

past
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

my face,
פָּנַ֣י (pā·nay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face

[and] the hair
שַֽׂעֲרַ֥ת (śa·‘ă·raṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8185: Hairiness

on my body
בְּשָׂרִֽי׃ (bə·śā·rî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

bristled.
תְּ֝סַמֵּ֗ר (tə·sam·mêr)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5568: To be erect, bristle as hair


Additional Translations
Then a spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body bristled.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.

And a spirit came before my face; and my hair and flesh quivered.

And 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.

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.

And a spirit before my face doth pass, Stand up doth the hair of my flesh;
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