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They; either,
1. My friends. Or,
2. My sorrows, of which he is here speaking. Or,
3. My thoughts, last mentioned. Possibly these words may be joined with them thus, The thoughts of my heart change the night into day.
Change the night into day; they do so incessantly pursue and disturb me, that I can no more rest and sleep in the dark and silent nights, than in the midst of the light and tumults of the day. Or,
they change the day into night, Heb. they put the night for or instead of (as the Hebrew lamed is elsewhere used) the day, i.e. they make the day as sad and dark as the night to me. So it seems best to agree with the following branch of the verse.
The light is short, i.e. the day-light, which ofttimes gives some little comfort and refreshment to men in misery, seems to be gone and fled as soon as it is begun.
Because of darkness, i.e. because of my grievous pains and torments, which follow me by day as well as by night.