Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

changing the night into day, and the light into darkness.

New American Standard Bible

“They make night into day, saying,
‘The light is near,’ in the presence of darkness.

King James Version

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

Holman 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.'

A Conservative Version

They change the night into day. The light, [they say], is near to the darkness.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


“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].

Bible in Basic English

They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

Darby Translation

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

Julia Smith Translation

They will set the night for day: the light being near from the face of darkness.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

They make night into day, [saying], 'Light [is] {near to darkness}.'

Modern King James verseion

They set night for day; the light is near in the face of darkness.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

Night for day, they appoint, Light, is near, by reason of darkness!

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

Night for day they appoint, Light is near because of darkness.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

the night
לילה ליל ליל 
Layil 
Usage: 233

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

the light
אור 
'owr 
Usage: 122

is short
קרב קרוב 
Qarowb 
Usage: 77

פּנים 
Paniym 
Usage: 2119

Verse Info

Context Readings

Job Says To His Friends: I'M Still Wiser Than You

11 My days are past, my thoughts are vanished away, which have vexed my heart, 12 changing the night into day, and the light into darkness. 13 Though I tarry never so much, yet the grave is my house, and I must make my bed in the dark.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:67

In the morning thou shalt say, 'Would God it were night.' And at night thou shalt say, 'Would God it were morning' - for fear of thine heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

Job 7:3-4

Even so have I laboured whole months long - but in vain - and many a careful night have I told.

Job 7:13-14

When I think, 'My bed shall comfort me; I shall have some refreshing by talking to myself upon my couch,'

Job 24:14-16

Timely in the morning do they arise, to murder the simple and poor, and in the night they go a stealing.

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