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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...
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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...
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CHAPTER S 16-17 JOB'S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ
_ 1. Miserable comforters are ye all (Job 16:1)_
2. Oh God! Thou hast done it! (Job 16:6)
3. Yet I look to Thee (Job 16:15)
4. Trouble upon trouble; self-pit...
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JOB 16:22 TO JOB 17:16. Job pleads in favour of his prayer for Divine
vindication, that death is before him and he has no hope, if he must
now die.
JOB 17:2 is obscure; the general sense seems to be...
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DARKNESS. Hebrew. _hashak._ See note on Job 3:6....
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This verse appears to be a description by Job of the delusive and
foolish proceeding of his friends.
_They change the night into day_ The night of calamity and death in
which Job is enveloped and into...
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Final repudiation by Job of the false hopes of recovery which the
friends held out to him. He knows better, _his_hope is in the grave.
Turning with a last word to his friends Job bids them renew as o...
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THE THOUGHTS OF MY HEART, &C.— _The gnawings of my heart_ (Job
17:12.) _causeth it to be night instead of day; the light is short in
comparison of darkness._ Heath....
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4. Yet his condition is such that his hope will soon go with him to
the grave. (Job 17:1-16)
TEXT 17:1-16
My spirit is consumed, my days are extinct,
The grave is _ready_ for me.
2 Surely there are...
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_THEY CHANGE THE NIGHT INTO DAY: THE LIGHT IS SHORT BECAUSE OF
DARKNESS._
They - namely, my friends-would change the night into day; would
assert that bright day is there where nothing is to be seen...
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17:12 They (g-1) Doubtless the friends of Job....
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JOB'S FOURTH SPEECH (CONCLUDED)
1-9. Job prays God to pledge Himself to vindicate his innocence in the
future, for his friends have failed him, and he rejects their promises
of restoration in the pre...
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JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD
Job
_KEITH SIMONS_
Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible.
This commentary has been through Advanced Checking.
CHAPTER 17
JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
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Job accused his friends. They said that his life would get better (Job
11:15-19). But Job’s troubles were real troubles....
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THEY CHANGE THE NIGHT INTO DAY. — Comp. Job 11:17. So little did his
friends enter into his case that they wanted him to believe that his
night of trial was the reverse of darkness, and that there was...
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לַ֭יְלָה לְ יֹ֣ום יָשִׂ֑ימוּ אֹ֝֗ור
קָרֹ֥וב מ
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XIV.
"MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN"
Job 16:1; Job 17:1
Job SPEAKS
IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the
doom of insolent evildoers described again and again in varying term...
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“THE BARS OF SHEOL”
Job 17:1
Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1
He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were
delivered from their mockery; and asks that God would...
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Job was in the midst of difficulties. About him were mockers, none of
whom understood him. He was become "a byword of the people." There was
no "wise man." And yet he struggled through the unutterable...
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They change the (m) night into day: the light [is] short because of
darkness.
(m) That is, have brought me sorrow instead of comfort....
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_Day. Sleep flees from me. (Menochius) --- All is in confusion. ---
After. Hebrew and Septuagint, "light is near in the face of darkness."
(Haydock) --- I still hope for relief._...
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(11) My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts
of my heart. (12) They change the night into day: the light is short
because of darkness. (13) If I wait, the grave is mine house:...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31.
As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks.
They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure
and...
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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 ab...
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They change the night into day: the light [is] short because of
darkness.
Ver. 12. _They change the night into day_] _i.e._ My troubled thoughts
render my nights restless, filling me with confusion....
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_They change the night into day_ My distressing thoughts, griefs, and
fears, so incessantly pursue and disturb me, that I can no more sleep
in the night than in the day. _The light is short_ The day-l...
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They change the night into day, namely, such joyous plans for life as
his friends held before him; THE LIGHT IS SHORT BECAUSE OF DARKNESS,
in the presence of darkness, for, according to the consolatio...
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Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction...
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Job has much more to say than his friends had, and we may marvel at
the detailed way in which he describes his present condition in
contrast to what he had once enjoyed. "My spirit is broken, my days...
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"THEY MAKE NIGHT INTO DAY, SAYING": In their first speeches, the three
friends had held out hope for Job and that repentance would solve all
his problems (Job 11:17). But for Job, since there was no r...
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10-16 Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hope of his
return to a prosperous estate; he here shows that those do not go
wisely about the work of comforting the afflicted, who fetch th...
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THEY; either,
1. My friends. Or,
2. My sorrows, of which he is here speaking. Or,
3. My thoughts, last mentioned. Possibly these words may be joined
with them thus, _The thoughts of my heart change...
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Job 17:12 change H7760 (H8799) night H3915 day H3117 light H216 near
H7138 face H6440 darkness H2822
change
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CONTENTS: Job's answer continued. He longs for death.
CHARACTERS: Job.
CONCLUSION: The believer should recognize that wherever he goes there
is but a step between him and the grave and should always...
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Job 17:1. _My breath is corrupt._ Schultens reads, _corruptus est
spiritus meus:_ “My spirit is corrupt, my days are extinct, the
sepulchre is my repose. Why then make a jest of me, while my eye weeps...
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JOB—NOTE ON JOB 17:10 In both lines of v. Job 17:12, Job appears to
refer to the viewpoint of his friends. They have said that if Job
would simply repent, God will restore him and turn his...
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_CONTINUATION OF JOB’S REPLY TO ELIPHAZ_
I. Bemoans his dying condition (Job 17:1).
“My breath is corrupt (or, ‘my spirit or vital energy is
destroyed’), my days are extinct (or, extinguished, as a l...
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EXPOSITION
JOB 17:1
The general character of this chapter has been considered in the
introductory section to Job 16:1. It is occupied mainly with Job's
complaints of his treatment by his friends, and...
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My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me.
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not my eye continue in their
provocation? Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who...
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Deuteronomy 28:67; Job 24:14; Job 7:13; Job 7:14; Job 7:3;...
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They — My thoughts so incessantly pursue and disturb me, that I can
no more sleep in the night, than in the day. The light — The day —
light, which often gives some comfort to men in misery, seems to...