Holy Scripture

Job 7:14

A church father on this verse
“Then Thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions. But lest anyone should be at pains to make out these words after the literal sense, it is of great importance to find out in how many ways the mind is affected by images from dreams. For sometimes dreams are engendered of fulness or emptiness of the…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book VIII

Source: Septuagint

Original

14Thou scarest me with dreams, and dost terrify me with visions.

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In context

12Am I a sea, or a serpent, That thou hast set a watch over me?

13I said that my bed should comfort me, And I would privately counsel with myself on my couch.

— Job 7:14 —

15Thou wilt separate life from my spirit; And yet keep my bones from death.

16For I shall not live forever, that I should patiently endure: Depart from me, for my life is vain.

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