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New American Standard Bible (1995)
Job 33:15
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In a dream, a vision in the night,when deep sleep comes over peopleas they slumber on their beds,
In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, In slumbering on the bed;
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, while they slumber on their beds,
He speaks in a dream or a vision of the night when people are in a deep sleep, lying on their beds.
In a dream, a night vision, when deep sleep falls on people as they sleep in their beds.
"In a dream, a vision of the night [one may hear God's voice], When deep sleep falls on men While slumbering upon the bed,
"In a dream, a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on people, While they slumber in their beds,
In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, In slumbering on the bed;
In dreames and visions of the night, when sleepe falleth vpon men, and they sleepe vpon their beds,
In a dream, a vision of the night,When deep sleep falls on men,While they slumber in their beds,
In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,
Sometimes in the night, he uses terrifying dreams
"In a dream, in a vision at night, when slumber falls upon people, as they sleep in their beds,
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
He may speak in a dream, or in a vision at night, when people are in a deep sleep lying in their beds.
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while slumbering upon the bed;
At night when people are asleep, God speaks in dreams and visions.
"In a dream, a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls on men slumbering on their bed,
In a dream, a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men; while they slumber on the bed,
In dreames and visions of the night season (when slombrynge cometh vpo me, that they fall a slepe in their beddes)
In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
In a dreame, in a vision of the night, when deepe sleepe falleth vpon men, in slumbrings vpon the bed:
In dreames and visions of the night, when slumbring commeth vpon men that they fall asleepe in their beddes,
sending a dream, or in the meditation of the night; (as when a dreadful alarm happens to fall upon men, in slumberings on the bed:)
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
God spekith bi a dreem in the visioun of nyyt, whanne sleep fallith on men, and thei slepen in the bed.
In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls on men, In slumberings on the bed;
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;
In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falls upon men, While slumbering on their beds,
He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in their beds.
In a dream, a special dream of the night, when deep sleep comes upon men, while they sleep in their beds,
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on mortals, while they slumber on their beds,
In a dream, a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed,
By a dream in a vision by night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, and they are sleeping in their beds:
In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber on their beds,
In a dream -- a vision of night, In the falling of deep sleep on men, In slumberings on a bed.
"In a dream, for instance, a vision at night, when men and women are deep in sleep, fast asleep in their beds— God opens their ears and impresses them with warnings To turn them back from something bad they're planning, from some reckless choice, And keep them from an early grave, from the river of no return.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
a dream: Job 4:13, Genesis 20:3, Genesis 31:24, Numbers 12:6, Jeremiah 23:28, Daniel 4:5, Hebrews 1:1
deep: Genesis 15:12, Daniel 8:18
Reciprocal: Genesis 2:21 - General Genesis 28:12 - he dreamed Genesis 40:5 - General Genesis 40:8 - Do not Genesis 41:1 - that Pharaoh Genesis 41:32 - doubled Genesis 46:2 - in the visions Numbers 22:12 - Thou shalt Judges 7:9 - the same 1 Samuel 3:8 - the third 1 Kings 3:5 - in a dream Daniel 2:1 - Nebuchadnezzar Daniel 2:19 - in Daniel 10:9 - was I Matthew 1:20 - in Matthew 2:12 - warned Matthew 2:13 - for 1 Thessalonians 5:7 - they that sleep
Cross-References
Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, "If I find favor in your sight, then I will give whatever you say to me.
So they said, "You have saved our lives! Let us find favor in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's slaves."
Then she said, "I have found favor in your sight, my lord, for you have comforted me and indeed have spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your maidservants."
'Ask your young men and they will tell you. Therefore let my young men find favor in your eyes, for we have come on a festive day. Please give whatever you find at hand to your servants and to your son David.'"
So the king said to Ziba, "Behold, all that belongs to Mephibosheth is yours." And Ziba said, "I prostrate myself; let me find favor in your sight, O my lord, the king!"
Gill's Notes on the Bible
In a dream, in a vision of the night,.... That is, God speaks to men in this way, and which in those times was his most usual way; see Job 4:12; sometimes he spake to a prophet, a person in public office, and made known his mind and will in this manner to him, that he might deliver it to others, Numbers 12:6; and sometimes directly and immediately to persons themselves, as he did to Abimelech and Laban,
Genesis 20:3;
when deep sleep lieth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed; the former denotes a fast, heavy, and sound sleep, when the senses are all locked up, and there is not the least attention to any outward object; the latter a slight sleep, when a man is between sleeping and waking; and now at such a time, when he was laid on his bed in the night season, it was usual for God to come to him in a visionary way, and impress things on his mind; when it was called off front worldly and earthly thoughts and cares, and was calm and serene, and so fit to receive what intimations and instructions might be given this way; see Psalms 4:4. Job had his dreams and night visions, though he seems not to have had any benefit by them, or to have understood them, but was scared and terrified with them, Job 7:14; to which Elihu may have some respect.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In a dream - This was one of the methods by which the will of God was made known in the early periods of the world; see the notes at Job 4:12-17. And for a fuller account of this method of communicating the divine will, see the introduction to Isaiah, Section 7 (2).
In a vision of the night - Notes, Job 4:13; compare the introduction to Isaiah, Section 7 (4).
When deep sleep falleth upon men - This may be designed to intimate more distinctly that it was from God. It was not the effect of disturbed and broken rest; not such fancies as come into the mind between sleeping and waking, but the visitations of the divine Spirit in the profoundest repose of the night. The word rendered “deep sleep” (תרדמה tardêmâh) is one that denotes the most profound repose. It is not merely sleep, but it is sleep of the soundest kind - that kind when we do not usually dream; see the notes at Job 4:13. The Chaldee has here rendered it correctly, עמקתא שינתא - sleep that is deep. The Septuagint renders it, δεινὸς φόβος deinos phobos - dread horror. The Syriac renders this verse, “Not by the lips does he teach; by dreams and visions of the night,” etc.
In slumberings upon the bed - The word rendered “slumberings” (בתנומה bitenûmâh) means a light sleep, as contradistinguished from very profound repose. Our word slumber conveys the exact idea. The meaning of the whole is, that God speaks to people when their senses are locked in repose - alike in the profound sleep when they do not ordinarily dream, and in the gentle and light slumbers when the sleep is easily broken. In what way, however, they were to distinguish such communications from ordinary dreams, we have no information. It is scarcely necessary to remark that what is here and elsewhere said in the Scriptures about dreams, is no warrant for putting any confidence in them now as if they were revelations from heaven.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 33:15.
I. In a DREAM - when deep sleep falleth upon men — Many, by such means, have had the most salutary warnings; and to decry all such, because there are many vain dreams, would be nearly as much wisdom as to deny the Bible, because there are many foolish books, the authors of which supposed they were under a Divine influence while composing them.
II. In a VISION of the night-in slumberings upon the bed — Visions or images presented in the imagination during slumber, when men are betwixt sleeping and waking, or when, awake and in bed, they are wrapt up in deep contemplation, the darkness of the night having shut out all objects from their sight, so that the mind is not diverted by images of earthly things impressed on the senses. Many warnings in this way have come from God; and the impression they made, and the good effect they produced, were the proofs of their Divine origin. To deny this would be to call into doubt the testimony of the best, wisest, and holiest men in all ages of the Church. Of one of these visions we have a remarkable account in this book, Job 4:12-21. And this vision seems to have taken place in the night season, when Eliphaz awoke from a deep sleep. There is this difference between the accidents of the dream and the vision: the former takes place when deep sleep falleth upon men; the latter, in the night, in or after slumberings upon the bed.
