Holy Scripture

Job 33:15

A church father on this verse
“In a dream, in a vision of the night, when sleep falleth upon men, and they sleep on their bed. What is meant by the word of God being made known to us in a dream, except that we do not learn the secret things of God, if we are kept awake by worldly desires? For in a dream the outward senses are at rest, and inward ob…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII

Source: Septuagint

Original

15sending a dream, Or in the meditation of the night (As when a dreadful alarm happens to fall upon men, In slumberings on the bed):

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In context

13But thou sayest, Why has he not heard every word of my cause?

14For when the Lord speaks once, Or a second time,

— Job 33:15 —

16Then opens he the understanding of men: He scares them with such fearful visions:

17To turn a man from unrighteousness, And he delivers his body from a fall.

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