Following are a number of back-translations as well as a sample translation for translators of Job 17:12:

• Kupsabiny: “But these people turn night to day.
  They say that light is coming.” (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
• Newari: “These people turn night into day,
  while it is still dark, they say, ‘The light is near’.” (Source: Newari Back Translation)
• Hiligaynon: “But they say that my well-being/situation might become well in the future. They say, ‘In the other side of darkness light will-arrive/come.’” (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
• English: “They became hungry, with the result that they had no strength.
  They experienced disasters constantly.” (Source: Translation for Translators)