Commentaries Dictionaries Concordances

Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Job 7:14

Verse Job 7:14. 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?

Continues after advertising

See also Job 7:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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 DREA...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 6-7 JOB'S ANSWER _ 1. His Despair justified by the greatness of his suffering (Job 6:1)_ 2. He requests to be cut off (Job 6:8) 3. He reproacheth his friends (Job 6:14) 4. The misery of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Job again gives utterance to his complaint. In the previous passage Job's tone, as in Job 3:11, had become quieter, and his complaint almost an elegy on human misery. But now he bursts forth again wit...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Further description of the plagues employed to subdue him. _ease my complaint Complaint_always means complaining, not malady; ch. Job 9:27; Job 10:1; Job 21:4; Job 23:2. When he

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    6. He finds no mercy, neither from God or from his friends. (Job 7:11-15) TEXT 7:11-15 11 THEREFORE I WILL NOT REFRAIN MY MONTH; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bit...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AM I A SEA, OR A WHALE, THAT THOU SETTEST A WATCH OVER ME?_ Why dost thou deny me the comfort of care-assuaging sleep? Why scarest thou me with frightful dreams? AM I, THEN, A SEA - regarded in Old...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DREAMS] the bad dreams of the sick....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S FIRST SPEECH (CONCLUDED) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Job was referring to Eliphaz’s dream. See Job 4:13-21. Eliphaz thought that this dream would help Job. But really, the dream only frightened Job. Job had enough troubles already! He did not want to th...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 7 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY T...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ חִתַּתַּ֥נִי בַ חֲלֹמֹ֑ות וּֽ מֵ חֶזְיֹנֹ֥

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1; Job 7:1 Job SPEAKS WORST to endure of all things is the grief that preys on a man's own heart because no channel outside self is provided for the hot strea...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    LONGING FOR THE EVENING Job 7:1 The servant eagerly longs for the lengthening shadow, which tells him that his day of labor is at an end, and we may allow ourselves to anticipate the hour of our rew...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Without waiting for their reply, Job broke out into a new lamentation, more bitter than the first, for it came out of a heart whose sorrow was aggravated by the misunderstanding of friends. Indeed, it...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Then thou scarest me (i) with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: (i) So that I can have no rest, night or day....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (11) Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. (12) Amos I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me? (1...

  • John Brown Commentaries Selected Books of the Bible

    Job's Answer to Eliphaz I. INTRODUCTION I. Job 7:1 (NKJV) "[Is] [there] not a time of hard service for man on earth? [Are] [not] his days also like the days of a hired man? Job 7:2 Like a servant w...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of 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 distempe...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _My couch shall ease my complaint_ By giving me sweet and quiet sleep, which may take off my sense of pain for that time. _Then thou scarest me with dreams_ With sad and frightful dreams. _And terrifi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    then Thou scarest me with dreams, shaking him thereby to prevent his resting in comfort, AND TERRIFIEST ME THROUGH VISIONS, in consequence of them,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB ARRAIGNS GOD...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    DOES GOD NOT RECOMPENSE GOOD DEEDS? (vv.1-16) Job's questions in verse 1 indicate why he was so distressed at God's dealings. No doubt too his friends would agree to his questions. "Is there not a t...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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 ther...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary 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 devil's malice, who by thy permission disturbs me in this man...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 7:14 scare H2865 (H8765) dreams H2472 terrify H1204 (H8762) visions H2384 thou scarest - Gen

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Job was sorely troubled by the cruel speeches of his friends, and he answered them out of the bitterness of his soul. What we are first about to read is a part of his language under those circumstance...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job's answer to Eliphaz continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Eliphaz. CONCLUSION: We believe in the sun even when it is hidden behind a cloud, therefore we should not doubt the goodness of God...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 7:1. _Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth?_ הלא צבא _hela zaba,_ Nonne militia est homini super terra, et sicut dies mercenarii dies ejus? “Is not the life of man a warfare upon the e...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CONTINUATION OF JOB’S SPEECH_ Job ceases to altercate with Eliphaz and to defend himself. Resumes his complaints, and ends by addressing himself to God. I. COMPLAINS OF THE GENERAL LOT OF HUMANITY...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 7:1 In this chapter Job first bewails his miserable fate, of which he expects no alleviation (verses 1-10); then claims an unlimited right of complaint (verse 11); and finally enters i...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Is there not an appointed time to man upon the earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling? As a servant earnestly desires the shadow (Job 7:1-2), That is, the shadow of the clock going...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Daniel 2:1; Genesis 40:5; Genesis 41:8; Judges 7:13; Judges 7:14;...

Continues after advertising