OLD TESTAMENT

Job 20:8

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He will fly away as a dream, and will not be found. Yes, he will be chased away like a vision of the night.

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Verse 8. Fleeth. The poets assign wings to sleep and to dreams. Homer, and so forth Isaias (29:7) describes a man who dreams that he is eating, and finds himself hungry when he awakes. Such is the live of the avaricious, ( Calmet.) and of all wicked people. Bible.

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