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Job 17:12
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They turned night into dayand made light seem near in the face of darkness.
They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
They make night into day: ‘The light,' they say, ‘is near to the darkness.'
These men think night is day; when it is dark, they say, ‘Light is near.'
These men change night into day; they say, ‘The light is near in the face of darkness.'
"These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day; 'The light is near,' they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].
"They make night into day, saying, 'The light is near,' in the presence of darkness.
They change the night into day, Saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.
Haue changed the nyght for the day, and the light that approched, for darkenesse.
They make night into day, saying,‘The light is near,' in the presence of darkness.
They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
But all my friends can do is offer empty hopes.
but they [try to] turn [my] night into day, [saying,] ‘Light is near!' — in the face of darkness.
They change the night into day; the light [they imagine] near in presence of the darkness.
Everything is confused— night is day, and evening comes when it should be dawn.
You change the night into day; and you bring forth the light before the darkness is over.
They make night into day, saying, ‘Light is near to darkness.'
They set night for day; light is near in the face of darkness.
chaunginge the night in to daye, & ye light in to darcknes.
They change the night into day: The light, say they, is near unto the darkness.
They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.
They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.
They change the night into day: the light is short, because of darknes.
Chaunging the night into day, and the light approching into darkenesse.
I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
They change the night into a day: the fight, say they, is near unto the darkness.
Tho han turned the nyyt `in to day; and eft aftir derknessis hope liyt.
They change the night into day: The light, [say they], is near to the darkness.
They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness.
They change the night into day; "The light is near,' they say, in the face of darkness.
These men say that night is day; they claim that the darkness is light.
They make night into day, saying, ‘The light is near,' when there is darkness.
They make night into day; ‘The light,' they say, ‘is near to the darkness.'
Night for day, they appoint, Light, is near, by reason of darkness!
They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.
They make night into day; 'The light,' they say, 'is near to the darkness.'
Night for day they appoint, Light [is] near because of darkness.
"They make night into day, saying, 'The light is near,' in the presence of darkness.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
change: Job 7:3, Job 7:4, Job 7:13, Job 7:14, Job 24:14-16, Deuteronomy 28:67
short: Heb. near
Cross-References
When God finished speaking to Abraham, he left him.
On that same day Abraham obeyed God and circumcised his son Ishmael and all the other males in his household, including the slaves born in his home and those he had bought.
and when Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded.
On the eighth day, the child shall be circumcised.
When the baby was a week old, they came to circumcise him, and they were going to name him Zechariah, after his father.
A week later, when the time came for the baby to be circumcised, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given him before he had been conceived.
Then God gave to Abraham the ceremony of circumcision as a sign of the covenant. So Abraham circumcised Isaac a week after he was born; Isaac circumcised his son Jacob, and Jacob circumcised his twelve sons, the famous ancestors of our race.
After all, who is a real Jew, truly circumcised? It is not the man who is a Jew on the outside, whose circumcision is a physical thing.
I was circumcised when I was a week old. I am an Israelite by birth, of the tribe of Benjamin, a pure-blooded Hebrew. As far as keeping the Jewish Law is concerned, I was a Pharisee,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
They change the night into day,.... Meaning either his friends, by what they had said unto him, or the thoughts of his heart, which comes to the same sense; these being in the night season employed about what had been said to him in the day, insomuch that he could get no sleep, the night was as broad day unto him; or they put the day before the night, contrary to the order of nature, as Noldius z observes, whereas the night is before the day, Genesis 1:5; his friends promising him long days, and an age clearer than noon day, as bright as the morning, Job 11:17; when the night of death was coming on, and he was hastening to the dark and silent grave:
the light [is] short because of darkness; the morning light, or light of the day, when that comes continues but for a short time, because of the darkness of the evening, which quickly follows; or because of the darkness of fiction, which fills it up, and makes it uncomfortable; or the light of prosperity, could it be enjoyed, is but short, because of the darkness of adversity; or "the light is near" a, as in the original text; though Jarchi interprets the word "short" as we do; Noldius renders it, "the light is rather nearer than darkness" b; after the night has been spent without sleep, the morning light is nearer than darkness; that may soon be expected, and so an end to sleep and rest.
z Ebr. Part. Concord. No. 1931. a קרוב "propinquam", Pagninus, Montanus; so Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, &c. b Ib. p. 642.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
They change - The word “they” in this place, some understand as referring to his friends; others, to his thoughts. Rosenmuller supposes it is to be taken impersonally, and that the meaning is, “night is become day to me.” Wemyss translates it, “night is assigned me for day.” So Dr. Good renders it. The meaning may be, that the night was to him as the day. He had no rest. The period when he had formerly sought repose, was now made like the day, and all was alike gloom and sadness.
The light is short because of darkness - Margin, near. The meaning is, probably, “even the day has lost its usual brilliancy and cheerfulness, and has become gloomy and sad. It seems to be like night. Neither night nor day is natural to me; the one is restless and full of cares like the usual employments of day, and the other is gloomy, or almost night, where there is no comfort and peace. Day brings to me none of its usual enjoyments. It is short, gloomy, sad, and hastens away, and a distressing and restless night soon comes on.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 17:12. They change the night into day — These purposes and thoughts are so very gloomy, that they change day into night.
The light is short because of darkness. — אור קרוב מפני חשך or karob mippeney choshek, "The light is near from the face of darkness." I have scarcely any light: what is called light is so near akin to darkness, that it is scarcely severed from it. There is either no light, or merely such as is sufficient to render darkness visible. A fine picture of the state of his mind-he was generally in darkness; but had occasional gleams of hope.
