“ They change the night into day: the light is shortg because of darkness. ”
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, “n...
They change the (m) night into day: the light [is] short because of darkness. (m) That is, have brought me sorrow instead of comfort.
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...
darkness. Hebrew. hashak. See note on Job 3:6 .
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. They change the night into day - These purposes and thoughts are so very gloomy, that they change day into night. The light...
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.
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...
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...
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 ther...
XIV. "MY WITNESS IN HEAVEN" Job 16:1-22 ; Job 17:1-16 Job SPEAKS IF it were comforting to be told of misery and misfortune, to hear the doom of insolent evildoers described again and again i...
“The Bars of Sheol” Job 17:1-16 Job's continued complaint of his friends, Job 17:1-9 He avows that he could bear his awful calamities if only he were delivered from their mockery; and asks t...
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 unutterabl...
(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:...
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...
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-...
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...
Job Reproves His Three Friends; Vanity of Worldly Expectations. B. C. 1520. 10 But as...
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...
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,...
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 we...
EXPOSITION Job 17:1-18 The general character of this chapter has been considered in the introductory section to Job 16:1-18 . It is occupied mainly with Job's complaints of his treatment b...
Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction
Deuteronomy 28:67 ; Job 24:14-16 ; Job 7:13 ; Job 7:14 ; Job 7:3 ; Job 7:4
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...