12 Night for day they appoint, Light `is' near because of darkness.
So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me. If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.
When I said, `My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch. And thou hast affrighted me with dreams, And from visions thou terrifiest me,
At the light doth the murderer rise, He doth slay the poor and needy, And in the night he is as a thief. And the eye of an adulterer Hath observed the twilight, Saying, `No eye doth behold me.' And he putteth the face in secret. He hath dug in the darkness -- houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.
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Commentary on Job 17 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 17
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His friends becoming strange to him, which greatly grieved him, he makes death and the grave familiar to him, which yielded him some comfort.
Job 17:1-9
Job's discourse is here somewhat broken and interrupted, and he passes suddenly from one thing to another, as is usual with men in trouble; but we may reduce what is here said to three heads:-
Job 17:10-16
Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows,