Job 17:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

They make night into day; ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

These [thoughts] extend from the night into the day, [so that] the light is short because of darkness.

American Standard Version (1901)

They change the night into day: The light, say they, is near unto the darkness.

Common English Bible

They turn night into day; light is near because of the darkness.

Catholic Public Domain Version

They have turned night into day, and I hope for light again after the darkness.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

They have turned night into day: and after darkness I hope for light again.

Job 17:12 Cross References

Job 17:11

My days are past; my plans are broken off, the desires of my heart.

Job 17:13

If I look for Sheol as my house, if I spread my couch in darkness,

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Deuteronomy 28:67

In the morning you shall say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and at evening you shall say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread that your heart shall feel and the sights that your eyes shall see.