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Job 17:12 KJV
Job · chapter 17 · verse 12
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.Job 17:12 · King James Version
Job 17:12 in context
10But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.
11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.
12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- changesûwmto putH7760 →
- nightlayilproperly, a twistH3915 →
- lightʼôwrillumination or luminaryH216 →
- shortqârôwbnearH7138 →
- dayyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
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Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows, I. That it was their folly to talk so (Job 17:10): "Return, and come now, be convinced that you are in an error, and let me persuade you to be of my mind;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-16