Job 17:12
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English Standard Version
They make night into day: ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’

New American Standard Bible
"They make night into day, saying, 'The light is near,' in the presence of darkness.

King James Bible
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They turned night into day and made light seem near in the face of darkness.

International Standard Version
They have transformed night into day— 'The light,' they say, 'is about to become dark.'

NET Bible
These men change night into day; they say, 'The light is near in the face of darkness.'

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You say that night is day. Light has nearly become darkness.

King James 2000 Bible
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

American King James Version
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

American Standard Version
They change the night into day: The light,'say they , is near unto the darkness.

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

Darby Bible Translation
They change the night into day; the light they imagine near in presence of the darkness.

English Revised Version
They change the night into a day: the fight, say they, is near unto the darkness.

Webster's Bible Translation
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.

World English Bible
They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.

Young's Literal Translation
Night for day they appoint, Light is near because of darkness.
Lexicon
They change
suwm  (soom)
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)wholly, work.
the night
layil  (lah'-yil)
a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity -- (mid-)night (season).
into day
yowm  (yome)
a day (as the warm hours),
the light
'owr  (ore)
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.) -- bright, clear, + day, light (-ning), morning, sun.
is short
qarowb  (kaw-robe')
near (in place, kindred or time)
because
paniym  (paw-neem')
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
of darkness
choshek  (kho-shek')
the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness -- dark(-ness), night, obscurity.
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