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**answered** = replied [to Bildad]. See note on [Job 4:1](../../../kjv/job/4/1) .

**as it is** = the thing that is. See note on "sound wisdom". [Proverbs 2:7](../../../kjv/proverbs/2/7) .

**spirit.** Hebrew. *neshamah* . App-16 .

**Dead things are formed from under the waters.** The Ellipsis must be supplied thus: "[The place where] the Rephaim stay [which is] beneath the waters, and the things that are therein. "This place thus answers to the other place, Sheol, the grave, in the next verse.
**Dead things.** Hebrew "The Rephaim", the offspring of the fallen angels, akin to the *Nephilim* ([Genesis 6:4](../../../kjv/genesis/6/4) . See App-23 and App-25 and note on [Isaiah 26:14](../../../kjv/isaiah/26/14) , [Isaiah 26:19](../../../kjv/isaiah/26/19) ).
**are formed** = remain. Hebrew. *hul* , a Homonym with three meanings: (1) *to stay* , *remain* , as here; [Genesis 8:10](../../../kjv/genesis/8/10) . [Judges 3:25](../../../kjv/judges/3/25) . [2 Samuel 3:29](../../../kjv/2-samuel/3/29) . [Lamentations 4:6](../../../kjv/lamentations/4/6) . [Hosea 11:6](../../../kjv/hosea/11/6) , even *to wait* , hence *to trust* , [Job 35:14](../../../kjv/job/35/14) . Compare [Psalms 37:7](../../../kjv/psalms/37/7) . [Lamentations 3:26](../../../kjv/lamentations/3/26) ; (2) *to be* in *pain* , and hence *to bring forth* , [Deuteronomy 2:25](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/2/25) .[Isaiah 23:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/23/4) ; [Isaiah 26:18](../../../kjv/isaiah/26/18) ; [Isaiah 54:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/54/1) ; [Isaiah 66:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/66/8) . [Psalms 29:9](../../../kjv/psalms/29/9) , &c.; (3) *to be formed* as made or brought forth, [Job 26:13](../../../kjv/job/26/13) .[Psalms 51:5](../../../kjv/psalms/51/5) ; [Psalms 90:2](../../../kjv/psalms/90/2) .[Deuteronomy 32:18](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/18) . [Proverbs 8:24](../../../kjv/proverbs/8/24) , [Proverbs 8:25](../../../kjv/proverbs/8/25) ; [Proverbs 26:10](../../../kjv/proverbs/26/10) . [Proverbs 15:7](../../../kjv/proverbs/15/7) .

**Hell.** Hebrew. *Sheol* . App-35 .
**destruction.** Hebrew. *Abaddon* .

**north.** See note on [Psalms 75:6](../../../kjv/psalms/75/6) . [Isaiah 14:13](../../../kjv/isaiah/14/13) , [Isaiah 14:14](../../../kjv/isaiah/14/14) .
**upon nothing** = not on any thing.

**tremble . . . astonished.** Figure of speech *Prosopopoeia* . App-6 .

**spirit.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 .
**garnished** = beautified.
**hath formed** = doth stay. See note on [Job 26:5](../../../kjv/job/26/5) .
**crooked** = fleeing. Heb *barih* . The word occurs only here; [Isaiah 27:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/27/1) ; [Isaiah 43:14](../../../kjv/isaiah/43/14) , referring to the constellation "Serpens".
**serpent** = *nachash,* the shining one. Hence a serpent; here, the constellation so called.

**but how little a portion** = 'tis but a whisper.

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