Job 4:13

This revelation which came to him secretly or "stealthily," as the word means, was given in the dead of night. He had had visions on his bed, and perplexing, tangled thoughts filled his heart. God's providence and ways to man, no doubt, were the subject of his thoughts.

The night was recognised of old as favourable to deeper thought from its stillness. Then the mind was less distracted and ranged more freely in the regions of higher truth. And revelations from heaven often came to men in the night-season; cf. Zechariah 1:8, and the story of Nathan's oracle to David in regard to building the Temple, 2 Samuel 7:3-4; also the words of the Psalmist, "My reins also instruct me in the night-seasons," Psalms 16:7.