Job 7:14

Amplified Bible

Then You frighten me with dreams And terrify me through visions,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
then you frighten me with dreams,and terrify me with visions,

Hebrew Names Version
Then you scar me with dreams, And terrify me through visions:

King James Version
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

English Standard Version
then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

New Century Version
Then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions.

New English Translation
then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

New American Standard Bible
Then You frighten me with dreams, And terrify me by visions,

World English Bible
Then you scar me with dreams, And terrify me through visions:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then fearest thou me with dreames, and astonishest me with visions.

Legacy Standard Bible
Then You frighten me with dreamsAnd terrify me by visions,

Berean Standard Bible
then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

Contemporary English Version
but you torture me with terrible dreams.

Complete Jewish Bible
then you terrify me with dreams and frighten me with visions.

Darby Translation
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions;

Easy-to-Read Version
But when I lie down, you scare me with dreams; you frighten me with visions.

George Lamsa Translation
And, behold, thou dost scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions;

Good News Translation
But you—you terrify me with dreams; you send me visions and nightmares

Lexham English Bible
then you terrify me with dreams, and with visions you terrify me.

Literal Translation
then You scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The troublest thou me with dreames, ad makest me so afrayed thorow visions,

American Standard Version
Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions:

Bible in Basic English
Then you send dreams to me, and visions of fear;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then fearest thou me with dreames, & makest me so afrayde through visions,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then Thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions;

King James Version (1611)
Then thou skarest mee with dreames, and terrifiest me through visions.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou scarest me with dreams, and dost terrify me with visions.

English Revised Version
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
thou schalt make me aferd bi dremys, and thou schalt schake me with `orrour, ethir hidousnesse, `bi siytis.

Update Bible Version
Then you scare me with dreams, And terrify me through visions:

Webster's Bible Translation
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

New King James Version
Then You scare me with dreams And terrify me with visions,

New Living Translation
but then you shatter me with dreams and terrify me with visions.

New Life Bible
then You send dreams to me which fill me with fear.

New Revised Standard
then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and, by visions, dost thou terrify me:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou wilt frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions.

Revised Standard Version
then thou dost scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

Young's Literal Translation
And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then You frighten me with dreams And terrify me by visions;

Contextual Overview

⁷"Remember that my life is but breath [a puff of wind, a sigh]; My eye will not see good again. ⁸"The eye of him who sees me [now] will see me no more; Your eyes will be upon me, but I will not be. ⁹"As a cloud vanishes and is gone, So he who goes down to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) does not come up. ¹⁰"He will not return again to his house, Nor will his place know about him anymore. ¹¹"Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit, I will complain in the bitterness of my soul [O Lord]. ¹²"Am I the sea, or the sea monster, That You set a guard over me? ¹³"When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,' ¹⁴Then You frighten me with dreams And terrify me through visions,¹⁵So that I would choose suffocation, Death rather than my pain. ¹⁶"I waste away and loathe my life; I will not live forever. Let me alone, for my days are but a breath [futile and without substance].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou scarest: Genesis 40:5-7, Genesis 41:8, Judges 7:13, Judges 7:14, Daniel 2:1, Matthew 27:19

Reciprocal: Job 4:14 - Fear Job 7:4 - When Job 17:12 - change Job 30:15 - Terrors Proverbs 18:14 - but Ecclesiastes 2:23 - his heart Jeremiah 8:18 - my Daniel 4:5 - a dream

Cross-References

Genesis 7:2
"Of every clean animal you shall take with you seven pair, the male and his female, and of animals that are not clean, two each the male and his female;

Genesis 7:3
also of the birds of the air, seven pair, the male and the female, to keep the offspring alive on the surface of the earth.

Genesis 7:8
Of clean animals and animals that are not clean and birds and fowls and everything that crawls on the ground,

Genesis 7:9
they came [motivated by God] into the ark with Noah two by two, the male and the female, just as God had commanded Noah.

Gill's Notes on the 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 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 and dreadful; or from a melancholy disposition his afflictions had brought upon him; and hence in his dreams he had dismal apprehensions of things very distressing and terrifying; or from Satan, in whose hands he was, and who was permitted to distress and disturb him at such seasons; all which he ascribes to God, because he suffered it so to be: and now these dreams not only hindered sound sleep, and getting that ease and refreshment he hoped for from thence, but even they were frightful and scaring to him, so that instead of being the better for his bed and his couch, he was the worse; these dreams added to his afflictions, and in them he suffered much, as Pilate's wife is said to do, Matthew 27:19;

and terrifiest me through visions; spectres, apparitions, and such like things, being presented to his fancy, while sleeping and dreaming, which filled him with terror, and sorely distressed him, so that he could receive no benefit hereby, but rather was more fatigued and weakened.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 dreams - see Job 7:4. A similar expression occurs in Ovid:

Ut puto, cam requies medicinaque publica curae,

Somnus adest, soliris nox venit orba malis,

Somnia me terrent. veros imitantia casus,

Et vigilant sensus in mea damna mei.

Do Ponto, Lib. i. Eleg. 2.

And terrifiest me through visions - See the notes at Job 4:13. This refers to the visions of the fancy, or to frightful appearances in the night. The belief of such night-visions was common in the early ages, and Job regarded them as under the direction of God, and as being designed to alarm him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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?