Job 17:12

¹⁰ But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

¹¹ My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

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

¹³ If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.

¹⁴ I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

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Sammenlign

ÅB: Natt gjør de til dag, lyset, sier de, er nærmere enn det mørke som ligger like for meg.
OTB: De gjør natt til dag, og sier,
‘Lyset er nær,’ i mørkets nærvær.
B1930: Natt gjør de til dag, lyset, sier de, er nærmere enn det mørke som ligger like for mig.

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.
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.
DARBY: They change the night into day; the light [they imagine] near in presence of the darkness.
BLB: They set the night into day: ‘Light [is] near in the face of darkness.’

Job 24:14–16
The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
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Job 7:13–14
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
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Job 7:3–4
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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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.
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