Tree of Life Version
Job 7:14
14then You frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions,
Job 7:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
- New International Version (NIV)even then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
- English Standard Version (ESV)then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Then You scare me with dreams And terrify me with visions,
Context of Job 7:14
12Am I a sea, or a monster of the deep that You have set a watch over me? 13When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’ then You frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions, 15so that my soul prefers strangulation, and my bones death. 16I despise it; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are a vapor.
Read all of Job 7Job 7:14 word by word
וְחִתַּתַּ֥נִי בַחֲלֹמ֑וֹת וּֽמֵחֶזְיֹנ֥וֹת תְּבַעֲתַֽנִּי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 7:14
- Genesis 40:5Then the two of them each dreamed a dream on the same night. The dream of each man—the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison—each had its own interpretation.
- Genesis 41:8But in the morning he was disturbed in his spirit. So he sent and called for the fortune-telling priests of Egypt and all its wise men and Pharaoh told them his dream. But no one could interpret them for Pharaoh.
- Judges 7:13Yet when Gideon came, behold, there was a man relating a dream to his fellow, saying, “Listen, I just now had a dream: there was a loaf of barley bread that came tumbling into the camp of Midian, came up to a tent and struck it so it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
- Daniel 2:1In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams. His spirit was troubled and sleep escaped him.
- Matthew 27:19While Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him a message, saying, “Don’t have anything to do with that righteous Man, for today I’ve suffered many things in a dream because of Him.”
Commentaries on Job 7:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14Thou sparest me with dreams - There is no doubt that Satan was permitted to haunt his imagination with dreadful dreams and terrific appearances; so that, as soon as he fell asleep, he was suddenly roused and alarmed by those appalling images. He needed rest by sleep, but was afraid to close his eyes because of the horrid images which were presented to his imagination. Could there be a state more deplorable than this?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14Then thou scarest me - This is an address to God. He regarded him as the source of his sorrows, and he expresses his sense of this in language indeed very beautiful, but far from reverence. With dreams - see Job 7:4. A similar expression occurs in Ovid: Ut puto, cam requies medicinaque publica curae, Somnus adest, soliris nox venit orba malis, Somnia me terrent. veros imitantia casus, Et vigilant sensus in mea damna mei. Do Ponto, Lib. i. Eleg. 2. And…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-16Verses 7-16 Plain truths as to the shortness and vanity of man's life, and the certainty of death, do us good, when we think and speak of them with application to ourselves. Dying is done but once, and therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation vanishes away. Glorified saints shall return no more to the cares…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-14Job's dreams and visions while sick were similar to those of Eliphaz (4:12–16).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1414. The frightful dreams resulting from elephantiasis he attributes to God; the common belief assigned all night visions to God.Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Job 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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