Job 17:12

¹⁰ But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.

¹¹ My days have passed; my plans are broken off— even the desires of my heart.

They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.

¹³ If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

¹⁴ and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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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.’

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.

Job 24:14–16
When daylight is gone, the murderer rises to kill the poor and needy; in the night he is like a thief.
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Job 7:13–14
When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
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Job 7:3–4
So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.
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Deuteronomy 28:67
In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
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