“They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.”
"They make night into day; 'The light,' they say, 'is near to the darkness.'" Job describes the friends' or the mockers' rhetoric—they invert reality, declaring that darkness is near to light. The verse suggests that Job's enemies speak lies so confidently that they confuse day and night. Their rhetoric creates a false reality.
Church Fathers on Job 17:12
They have changed the night into day. For ‘the thoughts being scattered change night into day,’ in that it is sometimes more grateful to the righteous through adversity to undergo sufferings, rather than as the effect of prosperity to be harassed with the charge of earthly ministering. But because they have learnt by paying attention that both adversity passes away, and prosperity dawns again, it is fitly added; And again after darkness I look for light. For ‘the light is…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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