--- title: "Bullinger" description: "answered = spake, but Hebrew Idiom = replied. See note on Job 4:1 and Deuteronomy 1:41 . Oh. Figure of speech Ecphonesis. App-6 . my grief: i.e. the c" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/job/6" --- **answered** = spake, but Hebrew Idiom = replied. See note on [Job 4:1](../../../kjv/job/4/1) and [Deuteronomy 1:41](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/1/41) . **Oh.** Figure of speech *Ecphonesis.* App-6 . **my grief:** i.e. the cause of my grief. **arrows.** Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 . Compare [Deuteronomy 32:23](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/23) , [Deuteronomy 32:42](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/42) .[Psalms 38:2](../../../kjv/psalms/38/2) .[Ezekiel 5:16](../../../kjv/ezekiel/5/16) . [Zechariah 9:14](../../../kjv/zechariah/9/14) . **THE ALMIGHTY.** Hebrew Shaddai. App-4 . **drinketh** = draineth. **spirit.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 . Perhaps in the sense of taking away his courage. **terrors.** Only here and [Psalms 88:16](../../../kjv/psalms/88/16) . **GOD.** Hebrew Eloah. App-4 . **Doth . . . loweth . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . Only here and [1 Samuel 6:12](../../../kjv/1-samuel/6/12) . **bray.** Only here and [Job 30:7](../../../kjv/job/30/7) . **when he hath** = over. **Can . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . **white of an egg.** "Egg" occurs only here. "White" (Hebrew. *rir)* is found elsewhere only in [1 Samuel 21:13](../../../kjv/1-samuel/21/13) , where it is rendered "spittle". **soul.** Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 . **meat** = bread. Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Species), App-6 , put for all kinds of food. **the thing that I long for** = my expectation. Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , put for the thing desired. **destroy** = crush. **I would harden, &c.** Occurs only here. = Let me even exult in my anguish (should He not spare) that I have not concealed, &c. **wisdom** = stability. See note on [Proverbs 2:7](../../../kjv/proverbs/2/7) . **the stream of brooks.** Hebrew. *, aphik = a,* torrent restrained in a narrow channel, natural or artificial, open as in a gorge, or covered as in an aqueduct, passing away, inaccessible, and out of sight. See note on first occurrence, [2 Samuel 22:16](../../../kjv/2-samuel/22/16) . **to nothings into a waste.** Hebrew. *tohu,* as in [Genesis 1:2](../../../kjv/genesis/1/2) . **troops** = caravans. **companies** = travellers. **Did I say . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . Continued in [Job 6:23](../../../kjv/job/6/23) . **substance.** Hebrew strength; put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 , for what is produced by it. **mighty** = adversary. Compare [Job 1](../../../kjv/job/1) . and [Job 2](../../../kjv/job/2) . **words** = sayings. **reprove** = convince, or confute: i.e. what can a reproof from you reprove? 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