“ 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. Wi...
Then thou scarest me (i) with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: (i) So that I can have no rest, night or day.
Job again gives utterance to his complaint. In the previous passage Job's tone, as in Job 3:11-19 , had become quieter, and his complaint almost an elegy on human misery. But now he bursts forth aga...
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: Thou sparest me with dreams - There is no doubt that Satan was permitted to haunt his imagination with dreadful dreams and terrifi...
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 - regarde...
Job's First Speech (concluded) 1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny.
VIII. MEN FALSE: GOD OVERBEARING Job 6:1-30 ; Job 7:1-21 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...
Longing for the Evening Job 7:1-21 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...
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, i...
(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? (...
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 dis...
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 gre...
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 terrif...
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...
7 O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. 8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more: thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. 9 As the cloud...
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 ma...
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 human...
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 circumstanc...
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 th...
EXPOSITION Job 7:1-18 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 fin...
Job Arraigns God
Daniel 2:1 ; Genesis 40:5-7 ; Genesis 41:8 ; Judges 7:13 ; Judges 7:14 ; Matthew 27:19