Job Prepares for Death
Job 17:12
In 11 translations
- BSB
- They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
- KJV
- They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.short: Heb. near
- WEB
- They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness.
- ASV
- They change the night into day: The light, say they, is near unto the darkness.
- LSV
- They appoint night for day, || Light [is] near because of darkness.
- YLT
- Night for day they appoint, Light [is] near because of darkness.
- DBY
- They change the night into day; the light [they imagine] near in presence of the darkness.
- DRC
- They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.
- GNV
- Haue changed the nyght for the day, and the light that approched, for darkenesse.
- JPS
- They change the night into day; the light is short because of darkness.
- LXXE
- I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- לַ֭יְלָה לְי֣וֹם יָשִׂ֑ימוּ א֝֗וֹר קָר֥וֹב מִפְּנֵי־חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃
- LXX-Br
- Νύκτα εἰς ἡμέραν ἔθηκα, φῶς ἐγγὺς ἀπὸ προσώπου σκότους.
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 24:14–16When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief. The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face. In the dark they…
- Deuteronomy 28:67In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
- Job 7:13–14When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint, then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
- Job 7:3–4So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me. When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
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