Holy Scripture

Job 17:12

A church father on this verse
“Ver. 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 l…”
Gregory the Dialogist, 7th c. — Morals on the Book of Job, Book XIII

Source: Septuagint

Original

12I have turned the night into day: The light is short because of darkness.

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10Howbeit, do ye all strengthen yourselves and come now, For I do not find truth in you.

11My days have passed in groaning, And my heartstrings are broken.

— Job 17:12 —

13For if I remain, Hades is my habitation: And my bed has been made in darkness.

14I have called upon death to be my father, And corruption to be my mother and sister.

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