Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 4:15

15. Then a Spirit passed before my face, the Hair of my Flesh stood up.

Heb. And, or For, as this particle is oft used. So this was the reason of the foregoing Thoughts and Fear.

An Angel in some visible shape, otherwise he could not have discerned it, nor would have been affrighted at it.

i. e. Of my Body, as Flesh is taken, Gen. 2. 24. Psal. 16. 9. and 119. 120.

Through that excessive horrour caused by so glorious, unusual, and terrible a presence. Which God used to excite in men upon such occasions to convince them, that it was not a vain Imagination or Illusion, but a real Vision and Revelation, and that from God.