“Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:”
Job asserts that God sends dreams and terrifies him with visions, suggesting that even the realm of sleep and dreams becomes a site of divine assault. The active role attributed to God in terrorizing Job through visions implicates the Divine in the assault on his consciousness. Sleep, which should be a refuge from pain, becomes an arena for additional torment.
Church Fathers on Job 7:14
When I say my bed shall comfort me, I shall be eased in speaking with myself on my couch, then Thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions. For in Holy Writ a ‘bed,’ a ‘couch,’ or ‘litter,’ is usually taken for the secret depth of the heart. For it is hence that under the likeness of each separate soul, the Spouse, urged by the piercing darts of holy love, says in the Song of Songs, By night on my bed I sought him, whom my soul loveth. For ‘by night and on…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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