Job 7 · Verse 14

Job 7:14

Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
Job 7:14, King James Version

Job 7:14 in other translations

BSBthen You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
WEBthen you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,
ASVThen thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions:
YLTAnd thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me,
DARBYThen thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions;
BBEThen you send dreams to me, and visions of fear;
WebsterThen thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

What does Job 7:14 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
14. The frightful dreams resulting from elephantiasis he attributes to God; the common belief assigned all night visions to God.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 14 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?

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 7:7-16

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…

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Job 7:14 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְחִתַּתַּ֥נִיve.chit.ta.Ta.niand you will dismay meH2865
בַחֲלֹמ֑וֹתva.cha.lo.Motby dreamsH2472
וּֽמֵחֶזְיֹנ֥וֹתu.me.chez.yo.Notand from visionsH2384
תְּבַעֲתַֽנִּי\׃te.va.'a.Ta.niyou will terrify meH1204

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 7:14

  • Genesis 41:8

    And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.

  • Daniel 2:1

    And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.

  • Genesis 40:5-7

    And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison. And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were with him in the ward of his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day?

  • Judges 7:13-14

    And when Gideon was come, behold, there was a man that told a dream unto his fellow, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream, and, lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the host of Midian, and came unto a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent lay along. And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.

  • Matthew 27:19

    When he was set down on the judgment seat, his wife sent unto him, saying, Have thou nothing to do with that just man: for I have suffered many things this day in a dream because of him.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
thou scarest.
Ge 40:5-7; 41:8; Jud 7:13,14; Da 2:1; Mt 27:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 7:13

    When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

  • Job 7:14

    Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

  • Job 7:15

    So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.

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Job 7:14 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Entonces me quebrantarás con sueños, y me turbarás con visiones.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Alors tu m’effraies par des songes, tu me terrifies par des visions,
German
Elberfelder 1871		so erschreckst du mich mit Träumen, und durch Gesichte ängstigst du mich,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		terrebis me per somnia, et per visiones horrore concuties.