Job 7:15

"then you scare me with dreams and terrify me through visions,"

Key Reflection

Job 7:15 reveals a deep anguish Job feels, as he describes God as the source of his nightmares and terrifying visions. In ancient Near Eastern culture, dreams were often seen as messages from deities, and night-time visions could be interpreted as divine warnings or judgments. For Job's original audience, these terrifying experiences would have been deeply personal and rooted in a belief that such supernatural encounters reflected God's presence and judgment, intensifying Job’s sense of dread and questioning his faith.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

So that my soul -So that I; the soul being put for himself. Chooseth strangling -Dr. Good renders it “suffocation,” and supposes that Job alludes to the oppression of breathing, produced by what is commonly called the night-mare, and that he means that he would prefer the sense of suffocation excited at such a time to the terrible images before his mind. Herder renders it, death. Jerome,suspendium. The Septuagint, “Thou separatest (ἀπαλλάξειςapallaceis) my life from my spirit, and my bones from death;” but what idea they attached to it, it is impossible now to tell.

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