"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 reason to repent, he was convinced that only darkness awaited him. He knew that repentance was not the answer, for he was innocent! Thus his only hope was Sheol.
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...
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...
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...
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...
DARKNESS. Hebrew. _hashak._ See note on Job 3:6....
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...
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...
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....
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...
_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...
17:12 They (g-1) Doubtless the friends of Job....
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...
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...
Job accused his friends. They said that his life would get better (Job 11:15-19). But Job’s troubles were real troubles....
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...
לַ֭יְלָה לְ יֹ֣ום יָשִׂ֑ימוּ אֹ֝֗ור קָרֹ֥וב מ
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...
“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...
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...
They change the (m) night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness. (m) That is, have brought me sorrow instead of comfort....
_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._...
(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:...
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...
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...
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....
_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...
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...
Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction...
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...
SHORT: _ Heb._ near...
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...
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...
Job 17:12 change H7760 (H8799) night H3915 day H3117 light H216 near H7138 face H6440 darkness H2822 change
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 28:67; Job 24:14; Job 7:13; Job 7:14; Job 7:3;...
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...