Job 33:15 BSB — MannaFest

Job 33:15

In a dream, in a vision in the night, when deep sleep falls upon men as they slumber on their beds,

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ASV

In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;

KJV

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

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Commentary

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Gregory the Dialogist

Morals on the Book of Job, Book XXIII (604)

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 objects are discerned. If we wish then to contemplate things within, let us rest from outward engagements.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2453: “A Hard Case” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1896)

HOW persevering is Divine love! "God speaks once." I have heard many a father say to his child, "Do not let me have to speak to you again." But the great Father has to speak again and when it is written, "God speaks once, yes twice, yet man perceives it not," we see how great is the stubbornness of the human heart! And we also see the gentleness of Divine love. When Elihu said, "God speaks once, yes twice," he meant that the Lord speaks repeatedly. Divine loving kindness has many voices. God often speaks to us in our childhood.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בַּחֲל֤וֹם׀	ba.cha.Lom	in a dream	H2472 →
חֶזְי֬וֹן	chez.Yon	a vision of	H2384 →
לַ֗יְלָה	Lay.lah	[the] night	H3915 →
בִּנְפֹ֣ל	bin.Fol	when falls	H5307 →
תַּ֭רְדֵּמָה	Tar.de.mah	deep sleep	H8639 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
אֲנָשִׁ֑ים	'a.na.Shim	people	H582 →
בִּ֝תְנוּמ֗וֹת	bit.nu.Mot	in slumber<s>	H8572 →
עֲלֵ֣י	'a.Lei	on	H5921 →
מִשְׁכָּֽב׃	mish.Kav	a bed	H4904 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Numbers 12:6
He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.
leads to
- 1 Kings 3:5
  One night at Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream, and God said, “Ask, and I will give it to you!”
- Genesis 31:10–11
  When the flocks were breeding, I saw in a dream that the streaked, spotted, and speckled males were mating with the females.
- Genesis 46:2
  And that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said. “Here I am,” replied Jacob.
- Acts 22:17–18
  Later, when I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance
- Luke 1:22
  When he came out and was unable to speak to them, they realized he had seen a vision in the temple. He kept making signs to them but remained speechless.
Through
Genesis 31:24
But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
leads to
- Genesis 24:50
  Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.
- Genesis 31:29
  I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
- Genesis 20:3
  One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”

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