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Selected Verse: Job 7:14 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Job 7:14 |
King James |
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
The frightful dreams resulting from elephantiasis he attributes to God; the common belief assigned all night visions to God. |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Then 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 terrifiest me through visions - See the notes at Job 4:13. This refers to the visions of the fancy, or to frightful appearances in the night. The belief of such night-visions was common in the early ages, and Job regarded them as under the direction of God, and as being designed to alarm him. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Thou 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? |
13 In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,
4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.