Job 7:14 (BSB)
then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
Commentary on Job 7:14
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 7:7-16: Job, observing perhaps that his friends, though they would not interrupt him in his discourse, yet began to grow weary, and not to heed much what he said, here turns to God, and speaks to him. If men will not hear us, God will; if men cannot help us, he can; for his arm is not shortened, neither is his ear heavy.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 7:14: 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...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 7:14: The frightful dreams resulting from elephantiasis he attributes to God; the common belief assigned all night visions to God.
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 7:14: Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: (i) So that I can have no rest, night or day.