Job 17:12
Job 17:10-16 The Message (MSG)
“Maybe you’d all like to start over, to try it again, the bunch of you. So far I haven’t come across one scrap of wisdom in anything you’ve said. My life’s about over. All my plans are shattered, all my hopes are snuffed out— My hope that night would turn into day, my hope that dawn was about to break. If all I have to look forward to is a home in the graveyard, if my only hope for comfort is a well-built coffin, If a family reunion means going six feet under, and the only family that shows up is worms, Do you call that hope? Who on earth could find any hope in that? No. If hope and I are to be buried together, I suppose you’ll all come to the double funeral!”
Job 17:12 King James Version (KJV)
They change the night into day: The light is short because of darkness.
Job 17:12 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
They make night into day, saying, ‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.
Job 17:12 New Century Version (NCV)
These men think night is day; when it is dark, they say, ‘Light is near.’
Job 17:12 American Standard Version (ASV)
They change the night into day: The light, say they, is near unto the darkness.
Job 17:12 New International Version (NIV)
turn night into day; in the face of the darkness light is near.
Job 17:12 New King James Version (NKJV)
They change the night into day; ‘The light is near,’ they say, in the face of darkness.
Job 17:12 Amplified Bible (AMP)
“These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day; ‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].