then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
Parallel translations
- WEB then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:
- KJV Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through 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, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.
- Gen 40:5–7both of these men—the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.
- Dan 2:1In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled his spirit, and sleep escaped him.
- Judg 7:13–14And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”
- Matt 27:19While Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered terribly in a dream today 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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