Job 7:14

Good News Translation

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

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,

Amplified Bible
Then You frighten me with dreams And terrify me through 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;

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, O God, my life is only a breath; my happiness has already ended. ⁸ You see me now, but never again. If you look for me, I'll be gone. ⁹Like a cloud that fades and is gone, we humans die and never return; we are forgotten by all who knew us. < ¹¹ No! I can't be quiet! I am angry and bitter. I have to speak. ¹² Why do you keep me under guard? Do you think I am a sea monster? ¹³ I lie down and try to rest; I look for relief from my pain. ¹⁴ But you—you terrify me with dreams; you send me visions and nightmares ¹⁵ until I would rather be strangled than live in this miserable body. ¹⁶ I give up; I am tired of living. Leave me alone. My life makes no sense.

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
Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal.

Genesis 7:3
Take also seven pairs of each kind of bird. Do this so that every kind of animal and bird will be kept alive to reproduce again on the earth.

Genesis 7:8
A male and a female of every kind of animal and bird, whether ritually clean or unclean,

Genesis 7:9
went into the boat with Noah, as God had commanded.

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?