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description: "answered = spake again. See note on Job 4:1 .  Zophar. See note on Job 2:11 .  check = correction.  of = for: i.e. meant to confound me, referring to ch"
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**answered** = spake again. See note on [Job 4:1](../../../kjv/job/4/1) .
**Zophar.** See note on [Job 2:11](../../../kjv/job/2/11) .

**check** = correction.
**of** = for: i.e. meant to confound me, referring to ch App-19 .
**spirit of** = spirit from. Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 .

**Knowest thou not this?** This was Zophar's reply to Job in [Job 19:25](../../../kjv/job/19/25) , implying that Job had no such hope.
**of old** = from of old.
**man.** Hebrew. *'adam.* App-14 .

**wicked** = lawless. Hebrew. *rasha'.* App-44 .
**dung.** See note on [Isaiah 25:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/25/10) .

**children** = sons.
**seek to please** = pay court to.
**poor** = impoverished. Hebrew. *dul.* See note on [Proverbs 6:11](../../../kjv/proverbs/6/11) .

**wickedness.** Hebrew. *ra'a'.* App-44 .

**mouth** = palate.

**meat** = bread; "bread" put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Species) App-6 , for all kinds of food.

**GOD.** Hebrew El. App-4 .

**rivers** = divisions of water for irrigation, as in a garden. Hebrew. *palgey mayim.* See notes on [Proverbs 21:1](../../../kjv/proverbs/21/1) , and [Psalms 1:3](../../../kjv/psalms/1/3) .
**floods** = rivers. Hebrew. *nahar,* ever flowing.
**brooks** = wadys. Hebrew. *nahal,* summer streams.

**feel** = know, or experience.

**every hand of the wicked** = all power of trouble.
**hand.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Cause), for the power exercised by it.

**not blown.** Not blown up, or produced by man.
**tabernacle** = tent.

**flow away** = melt away, disappear.

**man.** Hebrew. *'adam.* App-14 .
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .

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