Job 17:12
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17:12These men27 change28 night into day;
they say,29 ‘The light is near
in the face of darkness.’30
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- 27 The verse simply has the plural, “they change.” But since this verse seems to be a description of his friends, a clarification of the referent in the translation is helpful.
- 28 The same verb שִׂים (sim, “set”) is used this way in Isa 5:20: “… who change darkness into light.”
- 29 The rest of the verse makes better sense if it is interpreted as what his friends say.
- 30 This expression is open to alternative translations: (1) It could mean that they say in the face of darkness, “Light is near.” (2) It could also mean “The light is near the darkness” or “The light is nearer than the darkness.”
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
They make night into day:
‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
turn night into day;
in the face of the darkness light is near.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
They turned night into day
and made light seem near in the face of darkness.
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NLTNew Living Translation
These men say that night is day;
they claim that the darkness is light.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
They make night into day,
saying, ‘Light is near to darkness.’
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KJV 1900King James Version
They change the night into day:
The light is short because of darkness.
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