Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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 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 , 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 .

children = sons.

seek to please = pay court to.

poor = impoverished. Hebrew. dul. See note on 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 , and 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 .