Job 17:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

Job 17:12 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:67
In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
Job 24:14-16
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief. …
Job 7:13-14
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; …
Job 7:3-4
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 10-16)

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; for I cannot find one wise man among you, that knows how to explain the difficulties of God’s providence or how to apply th…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. They--namely, “my friends.” change the night into day--that is, would try to persuade me of the change of my misery into joy, which is impossible [Umbreit] (Job 11:17); (but) the light of prosperity (could it be enjoyed) would be short because of the darkness of adversity. Or better for “short,” the Hebrew “near”; “and the light of new prosperity should be near in the face of (before) the dark…