Job 17:12
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They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.

change

Job 7:3,4,13,14 So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights. . . .

Job 24:14-16 The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:67 In the morning thou shalt say: Who will grant me evening? and at evening: Who will grant me morning? for the fearfulness of thy heart, wherewith thou shalt be terrified, and for those things which thou shalt see with thy eyes.

short.

Context
Job Prepares for Death
11My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart. 12They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.13If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.…
Cross References
Job 17:11
My days have passed away, my thoughts are dissipated, tormenting my heart.

Job 17:13
If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness.

Isaiah 5:20
Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness: that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

Lexicon
They have turned
יָשִׂ֑ימוּ (yā·śî·mū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

night
לַ֭יְלָה (lay·lāh)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3915: A twist, night, adversity

into day
לְי֣וֹם (lə·yō·wm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

and have made light
א֝֗וֹר (’ō·wr)
Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 216: Illumination, luminary

seem near
קָר֥וֹב (qā·rō·wḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7138: Near

in the face
מִפְּנֵי־ (mip·pə·nê-)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face

of darkness.
חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃ (ḥō·šeḵ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2822: The dark, darkness, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness


Additional Translations
They have turned night into day and have made light seem near in the face of darkness.They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

They change the night into day: The light,'say they , is near unto the darkness.

I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

They change the night into day; the light [they imagine] near in presence of the darkness.

They change the night into a day: the fight, say they, is near unto the darkness.

They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

Night for day they appoint, Light is near because of darkness.
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