Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 17:12

12. They change the night into day : the light is short , because of darkness .

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 joined with them thus: The thoughts of my heart change the night into day.

They do so uncessantly pursue and disturb me, that I can no more rest and sleep in the dark and silent nights, than in the midst of the light and tumults of the day. Or, they change the day into night, Heb. they put the night for, or instead of (as the Hebrew Lamed is elsewhere used) the day, i. e. They make the day as sad and dark as the night to me. So it seems best to agree with the following branch of the Verse.

i. e. The day-light, which oft times gives some little comfort and refreshment to men in misery, seems to be gone and fled as soon as it is begun.

i. e. Because of my grievous pains and torments which follow me by day as well as by night.

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