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Ayub 33:15

Dalam mimpi, dalam penglihatan waktu malam, bila orang nyenyak tidur, bila berbaring di atas tempat tidur,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agency;   Conviction;   God;   God Continued...;   Philosophy;   Prophets;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Hearing;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Beds;   Dreams;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Vision;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Theophany;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Dream;   Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Job, the Book of;   Night;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Dreams;   Magic, Divination, and Sorcery;   Pit;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Dream (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Dreams;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Elihu;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Job, Book of;   Sleep, Deep;   Trance;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Dalam mimpi, dalam penglihatan waktu malam, bila orang nyenyak tidur, bila berbaring di atas tempat tidur,
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Entah dalam mimpi atau dalam khayal pada malam, apabila manusia tidur lelap terbaring pada petidurannya.

Contextual Overview

14 For God speaketh once or twise, and yet man vnderstandeth it not. 15 In dreames and visions of the night, when slumbring commeth vpon men that they fall asleepe in their beddes, 16 He roundeth them in the eares, and sealeth their correction: 17 That he may withdrawe man from euyll enterprises, and deliuer hym from pride, 18 And kepe his soule from the graue, and his life from the sworde.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a dream: Job 4:13, Genesis 20:3, Genesis 31:24, Numbers 12:6, Jeremiah 23:28, Daniel 4:5, Hebrews 1:1

deep: Genesis 15:12, Daniel 8:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:21 - General Genesis 28:12 - he dreamed Genesis 40:5 - General Genesis 40:8 - Do not Genesis 41:1 - that Pharaoh Genesis 41:32 - doubled Genesis 46:2 - in the visions Numbers 22:12 - Thou shalt Judges 7:9 - the same 1 Samuel 3:8 - the third 1 Kings 3:5 - in a dream Daniel 2:1 - Nebuchadnezzar Daniel 2:19 - in Daniel 10:9 - was I Matthew 1:20 - in Matthew 2:12 - warned Matthew 2:13 - for 1 Thessalonians 5:7 - they that sleep

Cross-References

Genesis 34:11
And Sichem said, vnto her father and vnto her brethren: let me finde grace in your eyes, and whatsoeuer ye appoint me, that wyll I geue.
Genesis 47:25
And they aunswered: Thou hast saued our lyues, let vs fynde grace in the syght of my lorde, and we wylbe Pharaos seruauntes.
Ruth 2:13
Then she sayde: Let me finde fauour in thy sight my lord, thou that hast comforted me, and spoken comfortably vnto thy mayde, whiche yet am not lyke vnto one of thy maydens.
1 Samuel 25:8
Aske thy laddes, & they will shew thee: Wherfore let these young men finde fauour in thyne eyes (for we come in a good season) & geue I pray thee whatsoeuer commeth to thyne hande vnto thy seruauntes, and to thy sonne Dauid.
2 Samuel 16:4
Then sayd the king to Ziba: Behold, thyne are all that pertayned vnto Miphiboseth. And Ziba sayde: I humbly beseche thee that I may finde grace in thy sight, my lorde O king.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In a dream, in a vision of the night,.... That is, God speaks to men in this way, and which in those times was his most usual way; see Job 4:12; sometimes he spake to a prophet, a person in public office, and made known his mind and will in this manner to him, that he might deliver it to others, Numbers 12:6; and sometimes directly and immediately to persons themselves, as he did to Abimelech and Laban,

Genesis 20:3;

when deep sleep lieth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; the former denotes a fast, heavy, and sound sleep, when the senses are all locked up, and there is not the least attention to any outward object; the latter a slight sleep, when a man is between sleeping and waking; and now at such a time, when he was laid on his bed in the night season, it was usual for God to come to him in a visionary way, and impress things on his mind; when it was called off front worldly and earthly thoughts and cares, and was calm and serene, and so fit to receive what intimations and instructions might be given this way; see Psalms 4:4. Job had his dreams and night visions, though he seems not to have had any benefit by them, or to have understood them, but was scared and terrified with them, Job 7:14; to which Elihu may have some respect.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In a dream - This was one of the methods by which the will of God was made known in the early periods of the world; see the notes at Job 4:12-17. And for a fuller account of this method of communicating the divine will, see the introduction to Isaiah, Section 7 (2).

In a vision of the night - Notes, Job 4:13; compare the introduction to Isaiah, Section 7 (4).

When deep sleep falleth upon men - This may be designed to intimate more distinctly that it was from God. It was not the effect of disturbed and broken rest; not such fancies as come into the mind between sleeping and waking, but the visitations of the divine Spirit in the profoundest repose of the night. The word rendered “deep sleep” (תרדמה tardêmâh) is one that denotes the most profound repose. It is not merely sleep, but it is sleep of the soundest kind - that kind when we do not usually dream; see the notes at Job 4:13. The Chaldee has here rendered it correctly, עמקתא שינתא - sleep that is deep. The Septuagint renders it, δεινὸς φόβος deinos phobos - dread horror. The Syriac renders this verse, “Not by the lips does he teach; by dreams and visions of the night,” etc.

In slumberings upon the bed - The word rendered “slumberings” (בתנומה bitenûmâh) means a light sleep, as contradistinguished from very profound repose. Our word slumber conveys the exact idea. The meaning of the whole is, that God speaks to people when their senses are locked in repose - alike in the profound sleep when they do not ordinarily dream, and in the gentle and light slumbers when the sleep is easily broken. In what way, however, they were to distinguish such communications from ordinary dreams, we have no information. It is scarcely necessary to remark that what is here and elsewhere said in the Scriptures about dreams, is no warrant for putting any confidence in them now as if they were revelations from heaven.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 33:15.

I. In a DREAM - when deep sleep falleth upon men — Many, by such means, have had the most salutary warnings; and to decry all such, because there are many vain dreams, would be nearly as much wisdom as to deny the Bible, because there are many foolish books, the authors of which supposed they were under a Divine influence while composing them.

II. In a VISION of the night-in slumberings upon the bedVisions or images presented in the imagination during slumber, when men are betwixt sleeping and waking, or when, awake and in bed, they are wrapt up in deep contemplation, the darkness of the night having shut out all objects from their sight, so that the mind is not diverted by images of earthly things impressed on the senses. Many warnings in this way have come from God; and the impression they made, and the good effect they produced, were the proofs of their Divine origin. To deny this would be to call into doubt the testimony of the best, wisest, and holiest men in all ages of the Church. Of one of these visions we have a remarkable account in this book, Job 4:12-21. And this vision seems to have taken place in the night season, when Eliphaz awoke from a deep sleep. There is this difference between the accidents of the dream and the vision: the former takes place when deep sleep falleth upon men; the latter, in the night, in or after slumberings upon the bed.


 
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