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in the face of the darkness light is near.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/job/17.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />These men say that night is day; they claim that the darkness is light.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/job/17.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />They make night into day: ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/job/17.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/job/17.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />They change the night into day: the light <i>is</i> short because of darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/job/17.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />They change the night into day; ‘The light <i>is</i> near,’ <i>they say,</i> in the face of darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/job/17.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“They make night into day, <i>saying,</i> ‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/job/17.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220They make night into day, saying, &#8216The light is near,&#8217 in the presence of darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/job/17.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“They make night into day, <i>saying,</i> ‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/job/17.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />They make night into day, <i>saying</i>, ‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/job/17.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day; ‘The light is near,’ <i>they say</i> in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/job/17.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />They turned night into day and made light seem near in the face of darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/job/17.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />They turned night into day and made light seem near in the face of darkness. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/job/17.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />They change the night into day: The light, say they, is near unto the darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/job/17.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />But all my friends can do is offer empty hopes. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/job/17.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />They change the night into a day: the fight, say they, is near unto the darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/job/17.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />You say that night is day. Light has nearly become darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/job/17.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />But my friends say night is daylight; they say that light is near, but I know I remain in darkness. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/job/17.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />They have transformed night into day— 'The light,' they say, 'is about to become dark.'<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/job/17.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/job/17.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />These men change night into day; they say, 'The light is near in the face of darkness.' <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/job/17.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />They change the night into day, saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/job/17.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/job/17.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />They change the night into day, saying ‘The light is near’ in the presence of darkness. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/job/17.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />They appoint night for day, "" Light [is] near because of darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/job/17.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Night for day they appoint, Light is near because of darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/job/17.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />They will set the night for day: the light being near from the face of darkness.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/job/17.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />They have turned night into day, and after darkness I hope for light again. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/job/17.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />They have turned night into day, and I hope for light again after the darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/job/17.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />They would change the night into day; where there is darkness they talk of approaching light. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/job/17.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />They make night into day; ‘The light,’ they say, ‘is near to the darkness.’<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/job/17.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />You change the night into day; and you bring forth the light before the darkness is over.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/job/17.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />You put the night for day, and you sacrifice the light to the darkness<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/job/17.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />They change the night into day; The light is short because of darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/job/17.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />I have turned the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/job/17-12.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XAwuD5NuZq0?start=2675" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/job/17.htm">Job Prepares for Death</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>My days have passed; my plans are broken off—even the desires of my heart. <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/7760.htm" title="7760: yā·śî·mū (V-Qal-Imperf-3mp) -- To put, place, set. Or siym; a primitive root; to put.">They have turned</a> <a href="/hebrew/3915.htm" title="3915: lay·lāh (N-ms) -- Night. Or leyl; also laylah; from the same as luwl; properly, a twist, i.e. Night; figuratively, adversity.">night</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: lə·yō·wm (Prep-l:: N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">into day,</a> <a href="/hebrew/216.htm" title="216: ’ō·wr (N-cs) -- A light. From 'owr; illumination or luminary.">making light</a> <a href="/hebrew/7138.htm" title="7138: qā·rō·wḇ (Adj-ms) -- Near. Or qarob; from qarab; near.">seem near</a> <a href="/hebrew/6440.htm" title="6440: mip·pə·nê- (Prep-m:: N-mpc) -- Face, faces. Plural of an unused noun; the face; used in a great variety of applications; also as a preposition.">in the face</a> <a href="/hebrew/2822.htm" title="2822: ḥō·šeḵ (N-ms) -- From chashak; the dark; hence darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness.">of darkness.</a> </span><span class="reftext">13</span>If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/5-20.htm">Isaiah 5:20</a></span><br />Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/3-6.htm">Micah 3:6</a></span><br />Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/5-18.htm">Amos 5:18-20</a></span><br />Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light. / It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake. / Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/13-16.htm">Jeremiah 13:16</a></span><br />Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/59-9.htm">Isaiah 59:9-10</a></span><br />Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom. / Like the blind, we feel our way along the wall, groping like those without eyes. We stumble at midday as in the twilight; among the vigorous we are like the dead.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/139-11.htm">Psalm 139:11-12</a></span><br />If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”— / even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/50-10.htm">Isaiah 50:10</a></span><br />Who among you fears the LORD and obeys the voice of His Servant? Who among you walks in darkness and has no light? Let him trust in the name of the LORD; let him lean on his God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/11-10.htm">John 11:10</a></span><br />But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no light.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_thessalonians/5-5.htm">1 Thessalonians 5:5-7</a></span><br />For you are all sons of the light and sons of the day; we do not belong to the night or to the darkness. / So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober. / For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/6-23.htm">Matthew 6:23</a></span><br />But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/11-34.htm">Luke 11:34-36</a></span><br />Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your eyes are good, your whole body also is full of light. But when they are bad, your body is full of darkness. / Be careful, then, that the light within you is not darkness. / So if your whole body is full of light, with no part of it in darkness, you will be radiant, as though a lamp were shining on you.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/12-35.htm">John 12:35</a></span><br />Then Jesus told them, “For a little while longer, the Light will be among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/13-12.htm">Romans 13:12</a></span><br />The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near. So let us lay aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-14.htm">2 Corinthians 6:14</a></span><br />Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/5-8.htm">Ephesians 5:8</a></span><br />For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.</p><p class="hdg">change</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/7-3.htm">Job 7:3,4,13,14</a></b></br> So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/job/24-14.htm">Job 24:14-16</a></b></br> The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/28-67.htm">Deuteronomy 28:67</a></b></br> In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.</p><p class="hdg">short.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/job/14-13.htm">Appoint</a> <a href="/job/14-20.htm">Change</a> <a href="/job/14-20.htm">Changing</a> <a href="/job/17-7.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/job/16-16.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/job/17-6.htm">Face</a> <a href="/job/6-26.htm">Imagine</a> <a href="/1_john/4-4.htm">Is</a> <a href="/job/12-25.htm">Light</a> <a href="/job/10-22.htm">Night</a> <a href="/job/13-16.htm">Presence</a> <a href="/job/17-1.htm">Short</a> <a href="/job/15-13.htm">Turn</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/job/34-23.htm">Appoint</a> <a href="/job/29-22.htm">Change</a> <a href="/job/23-13.htm">Changing</a> <a href="/job/17-13.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/job/17-13.htm">Darkness</a> <a href="/job/21-8.htm">Face</a> <a href="/job/21-27.htm">Imagine</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/3-17.htm">Is</a> <a href="/job/18-5.htm">Light</a> <a href="/job/20-8.htm">Night</a> <a href="/job/21-8.htm">Presence</a> <a href="/job/18-7.htm">Short</a> <a href="/job/20-14.htm">Turn</a><div class="vheading2">Job 17</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/job/17-1.htm">Job appeals from men to God</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/job/17-6.htm">The unmerciful dealing of men with the afflicted may astonish, </a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/job/17-9.htm">but not discourage the righteous</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/job/17-11.htm">His hope is not in life, but in death</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading"><a href="/study/job/17.htm">Berean Study Bible</a></div><b>They have turned night into day</b><br />This phrase captures the profound disorientation and confusion that Job feels. In the Hebrew text, the word for "turned" is "שׂוּם" (sum), which means to place or set. This suggests an intentional act of reversing the natural order. Historically, this reflects Job's perception of his friends' misguided counsel, which attempts to redefine his suffering and reality. In a broader scriptural context, this inversion of night and day symbolizes a distortion of truth and justice, echoing <a href="/isaiah/5-20.htm">Isaiah 5:20</a>, where woe is pronounced on those who call evil good and good evil.<p><b>in the face of darkness</b><br />The Hebrew word for "darkness" is "חֹשֶׁךְ" (choshek), often used in the Old Testament to denote chaos, evil, or judgment. Job's use of "darkness" here underscores the depth of his despair and the seeming absence of divine light or understanding in his situation. Archaeologically, darkness was often associated with the unknown and feared aspects of life in ancient Near Eastern cultures, further emphasizing Job's sense of being enveloped by uncertainty and dread.<p><b>they say, 'Light is near.'</b><br />The assertion "Light is near" is a statement of false hope or denial of reality. The Hebrew word for "light" is "אוֹר" (or), which typically represents life, prosperity, and divine presence. Job's friends, in their attempts to comfort him, offer platitudes that fail to acknowledge the severity of his suffering. This reflects a broader biblical theme where human wisdom falls short of comprehending God's purposes, as seen in <a href="/proverbs/14-12.htm">Proverbs 14:12</a>, which warns that there is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. Job's lament here is a poignant reminder of the need for genuine empathy and understanding in the face of suffering, rather than superficial reassurances.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/job/17.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(12) <span class= "bld">They change the night into day.</span>--Comp. <a href="/job/11-17.htm" title="And your age shall be clearer than the noonday: you shall shine forth, you shall be as the morning.">Job 11:17</a>. 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 there was light at hand. This was to him only the more painful mockery, because of its contrast to his felt condition. He, on the contrary, says that his only hope is in the grave. "The light," say they, "is near unto the darkness; that it is near before the darkness cometh; they try to persuade me that prosperity is close at hand."<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/job/17.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 12.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">They change the night into day</span>. They, my detractors, who are also my so-called "comforters," pretend to change my night into day; assure me that the cloud which rests on me is only for a time, and will ere long give place to the brightness of day, to a glorious burst of sunshine (see <a href="/job/5-18.htm">Job 5:18-26</a>; <a href="/job/8-21.htm">Job 8:21, 22</a>; <a href="/job/11-15.htm">Job 11:15-19</a>). <span class="cmt_word">The light</span> (they say) <span class="cmt_word">is short because of darkness</span>; or, rather, <span class="accented">is</span> <span class="accented">near because of the</span> darkness. To extreme darkness shows that dawn must be near, that the day must soon break when my <span class="accented">sorrow</span> will be turned into joy. Job had not found himself comforted by these assurances, which lacked the ring of sincerity, and could not be accomplished except by miracle, which he did not feel that he had any right to expect. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/job/17-12.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">They have turned</span><br /><span class="heb">יָשִׂ֑ימוּ</span> <span class="translit">(yā·śî·mū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7760.htm">Strong's 7760: </a> </span><span class="str2">Put -- to put, place, set</span><br /><br /><span class="word">night</span><br /><span class="heb">לַ֭יְלָה</span> <span class="translit">(lay·lāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3915.htm">Strong's 3915: </a> </span><span class="str2">A twist, night, adversity</span><br /><br /><span class="word">into day</span><br /><span class="heb">לְי֣וֹם</span> <span class="translit">(lə·yō·wm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> </span><span class="str2">A day</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and have made light</span><br /><span class="heb">א֝֗וֹר</span> <span class="translit">(’ō·wr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_216.htm">Strong's 216: </a> </span><span class="str2">Illumination, luminary</span><br /><br /><span class="word">seem near</span><br /><span class="heb">קָר֥וֹב</span> <span class="translit">(qā·rō·wḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7138.htm">Strong's 7138: </a> </span><span class="str2">Near</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in the face</span><br /><span class="heb">מִפְּנֵי־</span> <span class="translit">(mip·pə·nê-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6440.htm">Strong's 6440: </a> </span><span class="str2">The face</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of darkness.</span><br /><span class="heb">חֹֽשֶׁךְ׃</span> <span class="translit">(ḥō·šeḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2822.htm">Strong's 2822: </a> </span><span class="str2">The dark, darkness, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/job/17-12.htm">Job 17:12 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/job/17-12.htm">Job 17:12 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/job/17-12.htm">Job 17:12 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/job/17-12.htm">Job 17:12 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/job/17-12.htm">Job 17:12 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/job/17-12.htm">Job 17:12 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/job/17-12.htm">Job 17:12 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/job/17-12.htm">Job 17:12 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/job/17-12.htm">Job 17:12 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/job/17-12.htm">Job 17:12 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/17-12.htm">OT Poetry: Job 17:12 They change the night into day saying (Jb) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/job/17-11.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 17:11"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 17:11" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/job/17-13.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 17:13"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 17:13" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>