New Revised Standard Version
They make night into day; ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’

Contemporary English Version
But all my friends can do is offer empty hopes.

New American Bible
They would change the night into day; where there is darkness they talk of approaching light.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.

They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again.

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Job 7:3,4,13,14 So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights. . . .

Job 24:14-16 The murderer riseth at the very break of day, he killeth the needy, and the poor man: but in the night he will be as a thief. . . .

Deuteronomy 28:67 In the morning thou shalt say: Who will grant me evening? and at evening: Who will grant me morning? for the fearfulness of thy heart, wherewith thou shalt be terrified, and for those things which thou shalt see with thy eyes.

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