Deuteronomy 28:67; Job 24:14-16; Job 7:13; Job 7:14; Job 7:3; Job 7:4
They change - The word “they” in this place, some understand as referring to his friends; others, to his thoughts. Rosenmuller supposes it is to...
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...
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 gl...
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 comparis...
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. They - namely, my friends-would change the night into day; would asse...
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, an...
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 o...
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...
“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 onl...
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...
(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...
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 sa...
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 re...
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 ni...
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...
Job Reproves His Three Friends; Vanity of Worldly Expectations. B. C. 1520....
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...
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 de...
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 r...
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 occupi...
Job's Hopelessness in his Affliction
They change the night into day, namely, such joyous plans for life as his friends held before him; the light is short because of darkness, in the p...
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...
12 They change the night into day: the light is shortg because of darkness.