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**Eliphaz.** See note on [Job 2:11](../../../kjv/job/2/11) .
**answered** = spake. See note on [Job 4:1](../../../kjv/job/4/1) .

**Can . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 .
**man** = a strong man. Hebrew. *geber.* App-14 .
**GOD.** Hebrew El.
**as** = nay. The Hebrew accent *(Tebir)* on *ki,* "as", is disjunctive, and means "nay". See note on [Isaiah 28:28](../../../kjv/isaiah/28/28) .

**Is it. ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 .
**THE ALMIGHTY.** Hebrew Shaddai. App-4 .
**infinite** = without end.

**stripped the naked.** Figure of speech *Oxymoron.* App-6 .
**the naked** = the poorly clad, or threadbare.

**man.** Hebrew. *'ish.* App-14 . See translation below.

**Is not. ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 .
**GOD.** Hebrew Eloah App-4 .

**And, &c.** = "and [yet may be] thou sayest".
**How . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 .
**dark cloud.** Hebrew. *'araphel.* See note on [Job 3:6](../../../kjv/job/3/6) .

**walketh** = walketh habitually.
**circuit** = vault. Hebrew. *hug,*

**wicked** = lawless. Hebrew. *rasha'.* App-44 .

**Whereas.** Supply Ellipsis ( App-6 ), "[and say] Surely", &c. See translation below.

**Acquaint.** This is the false theology of Eliphaz. Compare [Job 42:8](../../../kjv/job/42/8) .
**good** = blessing. Most codices, with Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and
**unto** = upon. Vulgate, read "thy gain shall be blessing".

**return.** Septuagint adds "and submit thyself".
**tabernacles** = tents. Some codices, with four early printed editions, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "tent"; others, with six early printed editions (and one in margin), read "tents" (plural)

**the humble.** Hebrew the man of downcast eyes. Compare [Luke 18:13](../../../kjv/luke/18/13) .

**the island of.** Island put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Subject), App-6 , for coasts, or borders; but the words are omitted by the Septuagint
**it.** The Aramaean, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read "thou".

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