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Job 7:14

Job 7:14
Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 7:13-14

Further description of the plagues employed to subdue him.

ease my complaint Complaintalways means complaining, not malady; ch. Job 9:27; Job 10:1; Job 21:4; Job 23:2. When he looks for sleep

That…

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