then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
Parallel translations
- KJV Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:
- BSB then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
- NKJV Then You scare me with dreams And terrify me with visions,
- NASB Then You frighten me with dreams, And terrify me by visions,
- NLT but then you shatter me with dreams and terrify me with visions.
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Quick answer
Instead of rest, Job finds God terrifying him with dreams and frightening visions. Even sleep becomes a source of dread.
Overview
The comfort Job sought in sleep turns to terror as nightmares and visions assault him. Job attributes these to God, feeling pursued even in the night. This total invasion of his suffering deepens his lament and his sense that there is no escape, driving him to long for death itself.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Gen 41:8In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.
- Gen 40:5–7They both dreamed a dream, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the cup bearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.
- Dan 2:1In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams; and his spirit was troubled, and his sleep went from him.
- Judg 7:13–14When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”
- Matt 27:19While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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