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Gill's Exposition
They change the night into day,.... Meaning either his friends, by what they had said unto him, or the thoughts of his heart, which comes to the same sense; these being in the night season employed…
Barnes' Notes
They change - The word “they” in this place, some understand as referring to his friends; others, to his thoughts. Rosenmuller supposes it is to be taken impersonally, and that the meaning is, “night…
Job's friends had pretended to comfort him with the hopes of his return to a prosperous estate again; now he here shows,
I. That it was their folly to talk so (Job 17:10): "Return, and come now, be…
Cambridge Bible
This verse appears to be a description by Job of the delusive and foolish proceeding of his friends.
They change the night into day The night of calamity and death in which Job is enveloped and into…