Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 7:14
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
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.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
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?
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
With sad and dreadful dreams, arising either from that melancholy humour which is now so fixed in me, and predominant over me, or from the devils malice, who by thy permission disturbs me in this manner; so that I am afraid to go to sleep, and my remedy proves as bad as my disease.
Visions are the same thing with dreams; for there were not only day visions, which were offered to mens sight when they were awake; but also night visions, which were presented to mens fancy in their sleep and dreams. See Gen 28:12; 41:1,2; Da 2:1,31; 4:5,10.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
14. The frightful dreamsresulting from elephantiasis he attributes to God; the common beliefassigned all night visions to God.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Then thou scarest me with dreams,…. Not with dreams and visions being told him, as were by Eliphaz, Job 4:13; but with dreams he himself dreamed; and which might arise from the force of his distemper, and the pain of his body, whereby his sleep was broken, his imagination disturbed, and his fancy roving, which led him to objects as seemed to him very terrible and dreadful; or from a melancholy disposition his afflictions had brought upon him; and hence in his dreams he had dismal apprehensions of things very distressing and terrifying; or from Satan, in whose hands he was, and who was permitted to distress and disturb him at such seasons; all which he ascribes to God, because he suffered it so to be: and now these dreams not only hindered sound sleep, and getting that ease and refreshment he hoped for from thence, but even they were frightful and scaring to him, so that instead of being the better for his bed and his couch, he was the worse; these dreams added to his afflictions, and in them he suffered much, as Pilate’s wife is said to do, Mt 27:19;
and terrifiest me through visions; spectres, apparitions, and such like things, being presented to his fancy, while sleeping and dreaming, which filled him with terror, and sorely distressed him, so that he could receive no benefit hereby, but rather was more fatigued and weakened.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
14. Dreams According to Avicenna, those afflicted with elephantiasis suffer from frequent melancholy dreams.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 7:14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
Ver. 14. Then thou scarest me with dreams ] Extremam tentationem describit, saith Vatablus; and the devil doubtless had a great hand in this business (for it was within his commission, and he would not neglect any part of it); but Job taketh notice of none but God, the chief agent, and to him he applieth himself. His providence is exercised even about dreams, which, in melancholy people, happen (especially when they are sick) to be oftentimes very horrid and hideous; as that they fall down from some high place, commit some capital offence, are slain, torn in pieces by devils, &c. Bishop Foliot’s terrible night vision was before mentioned. Richard III, after the murder of his two innocent nephews, and Charles IX of France, after the Parisian Massacre, had such dreadful dreams, that they became a terror to themselves and to all about them. But to instance in better men: Calvin in the year of grace 1562, being sick of the gout, dreamed that he heard a great noise of drums beaten up most vehemently, as they use to be in warlike marches (Beza in Vita). Pareua also, A.D. 1618, saw in a dream the city of Heidelberg set on fire in many places, and the prince elector’s palace all on a light flame: this he set down the next morning in his dairy, and added these words, O Deus clementissime, averte sinistrum omen, &c., O most merciful God, turn aside this evil omen. (Philip Par. in Vita Patris). Such fearful dreams cause a sick sleep, and a worse waking. This Job complaineth of here; and yet more fully in the next words.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
thou scarest: Gen 40:5-7, Gen 41:8, Jdg 7:13, Jdg 7:14, Dan 2:1, Mat 27:19
Reciprocal: Job 4:14 – Fear Job 7:4 – When Job 17:12 – change Job 30:15 – Terrors Pro 18:14 – but Ecc 2:23 – his heart Jer 8:18 – my Dan 4:5 – a dream
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
7:14 Then thou scarest me {i} with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
(i) So that I can have no rest, night or day.