Job 4:15

“Then a spirit passed before my face, etc.] Which some interpret of a wind f157, a blustering wind, that blew strong in his face; and so the Targum renders it, a stormy wind, such an one as Elijah perceived when the Lord spoke to him, though he was not in that, (<111911>1 Kings 19:11); or such a whirlwind, out of which the Lord spake to Job, (<183801>Job 38:1); or rather, as Jarchi, an angel, an immaterial spirit, one of Jehovah’s ministering spirits, clothed in an human form, and which passed and repassed before Eliphaz, that he might take notice of it: the hair of my flesh stood up; erect, through surprise and dread; which is sometimes the case, when anything astonishing and terrible is…”

“Then a spirit passed before my face - He does not intimate whether it was the spirit of a man, or an angel who thus appeared. The belief in such apparitions was common in the early ages, and indeed has prevailed at all times. No one can demonstrate that God could not communicate his will in such a manner as this, or by a messenger deputed from his immediate presence to impart valuable truth to people. The hair of my flesh stood up - This is an effect which is known often to be produced by fear. Sometimes the hair is made to turn white almost in an instant, as an effect of sudden alarm; but usually the effect is to make it stand on end. Seneca uses language remarkably similar to this in…”

“A spirit - An angel in visible shape, otherwise he could not have discerned it. Stood up - Through that excessive horror caused by so glorious, unusual, and terrible a presence. Job 4:16”

“4:15 A spirit (or wind) swept past my face: Wind is a physical display of God’s powerful presence (38:1; Nah 1:3; Acts 2:2; cp. 1 Kgs 19:11).”

“a spirit: Psa 104:4; Mat 14:26; Luk 24:37-39; Heb 1:7, Heb 1:14 the hair: Isa 13:8, Isa 21:3, Isa 21:4; Dan 5:6 Job 4:16”