Job 17:12
They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
BSB
ASV
They change the night into day: The light, say they, is near unto the darkness.
KJV
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
They change the night into day - These purposes and thoughts are so very gloomy, that they change day into night. The light is short because of darkness - אור קרוב מפני חשך or karob mippeney choshek, “The light is near from the face of darkness.” I have scarcely any light: what is called light is so near akin to darkness, that it is scarcely severed from it. There is either no light, or merely such as is sufficient to render darkness visible.
Or better for "short," the Hebrew "near"; "and the light of new prosperity should be near in the face of (before) the darkness of death"; that is, they would persuade me that light is near, even though darkness approaches.
The walk3
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Through
Deuteronomy 28:67In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you…
leads to
You will be driven mad by the sights you see.
So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.
In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.