Job 7:14

then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

Berean Standard Bible

Study note

Setting — Job speaks directly to God during a moment of exhausted desperation, describing how his attempt to find relief on his bed is immediately interrupted.

The words — The Hebrew חִתּוֹת (chittot, "dismay") and בַּחֲלֹמוֹת (ba'chalomot, "by dreams") identify the means of affliction, while תְּבַעֲתֵנִי (teva'eteni, "you will terrify me") and חֶזְיוֹנוֹת (chezyonot, "visions") specify the content of the disturbance.

The thread — This same sequence of sleepless distress over dreams and visions occurs when the cupbearer and baker dream in prison (Genesis 40:5), when Pharaoh’s spirit is troubled by his dreams (Genesis 41:8), and when Nebuchadnezzar loses sleep over his visions (Daniel 2:1).

Why it lands — The passage requires a reader to confront the reality that divine action operates even in the most private human moments of vulnerability, leaving the sufferer to state the experience without receiving an immediate explanation.

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The Hebrew words

וְחִתַּתַּ֥נִיve./chit.ta.Ta./niand/ you will dismay/ me בַחֲלֹמ֑וֹתva./cha.lo.Motby/ dreams וּֽמֵחֶזְיֹנ֥וֹתu./me./chez.yo.Notand/ from/ visions תְּבַעֲתַֽנִּי׃te.va.'a.Ta./niyou will terrify/ me

King James Version

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

Cross-references

Genesis 40:5 both of these men—the Egyptian king’s cupbearer and baker, who were being held in the prison—had a dream on the same night, and each dream had its own meaning.
Genesis 41:8 In the morning his spirit was troubled, so he summoned all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.
Daniel 2:1 In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that troubled his spirit, and sleep escaped him.
Judges 7:13 And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”
Matthew 27:19 While Pilate was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent him this message: “Have nothing to do with that innocent man, for I have suffered terribly in a dream today because of Him.”