--- title: "Bullinger" description: "answered = responded. See note on Job 4:1 . how. ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6 . This is the one great question of the book. man = mortal man. He" image: "/images/missing.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/commentaries/bullingers-companion-bible-notes/job/9" --- **answered** = responded. See note on [Job 4:1](../../../kjv/job/4/1) . **how. ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . This is the one great question of the book. **man** = mortal man. Hebrew. *'enosh.* App-14 . **GOD.** Hebrew El. App-4 . **will** = desire to. **who . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . Compare [2 Chronicles 36:13](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/36/13) .[Isaiah 48:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/48/4) . **they know.** Figure of speech *Prosopopoeia.* App-6 . **waves of the sea.** The celebrated Mugah Codex (the earliest quoted in the *Massorah* itself), App-30 , reads "cloud": i.e. thick cloud. **Arcturus.** Hebrew. *'ash.* A name still connected with "the Great Bear" (the more ancient name being "the greater sheepfold": Arab, *al naish,* the assembled (as in a fold). See [Job 38:31](../../../kjv/job/38/31) , [Job 38:32](../../../kjv/job/38/32) , and App-12 . **Orion.** Hebrew. *kesil.* Compare [Job 38:31](../../../kjv/job/38/31) .[Amos 5:8](../../../kjv/amos/5/8) . A strong one, or the coming prince. See App-12 . **Pleiades.** Hebrew. *kimah* = the congregation of the judge. See [Job 38:31](../../../kjv/job/38/31) , [Job 38:32](../../../kjv/job/38/32) .[Amos 5:8](../../../kjv/amos/5/8) , and App-12 . A constellation in the neck of Taurus. **chambers of the south:** i.e. the [hidden] recesses, or the invisible spaces; on the latitude of Job's residence. **Lo.** Figure of speech. *Asterismos* . App-6 . **Behold.** Figure of speech. *Asterismos* . App-6 . **GOD** . Hebrew. *Eloah* . App-4 . **withdraw** = avert. **helpers** = confederates. **not answer** = not [dare to] answer. **breath.** Hebrew. *ruach.* App-9 . **my soul** = myself. Hebrew. *nephesh.* App-13 . **life.** Hebrew. *chayai.* **the wicked** = a lawless one. Hebrew. *rasha,* App-44 . **covereth:** i.e. so that they cannot discern between right and wrong. **post** = runner, or courier. Compare [Esther 3:13](../../../kjv/esther/3/13) , [Esther 3:15](../../../kjv/esther/3/15) . **swift ships** = ships of *ebeh.* Hence vessels of bulrush *(eb)* ; vessels of desire *('abeh),* i.e. desiring to reach their haven; vessels of enmity *('eybah),* i.e. pirate vessels; or vessels of the Nile *('abai,* Abyssinian for Nile). Others, vessels of Joppa. Perhaps the last is best. **complaint** = complaining. **why . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* App-6 . **never so clean** = clean with soap. **abhor.** Figure of speech *Prosopopoeia.* **Neither is there.** Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read "Oh that there were". **any Daysman** = any umpire, arbiter, or mediator. In Job's case He was found in Elihu; in ours, in Christ. **His fear** = the fear that He causes. **terrify** = startle, or scare. 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