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Job 11:16
16You will forget about your trouble. It will be like water that has disappeared. You will not remember it.
Job 11:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
- New International Version (NIV)You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Because you would forget your misery, And remember it as waters that have passed away,
Context of Job 11:16
14If you want to do an evil thing, stop yourself from doing it. Do not let people do wrong things in your home. 15Do what I say. Then you will not be ashamed any more. Instead, you will be strong. You will not be afraid. You will forget about your trouble. It will be like water that has disappeared. You will not remember it. 17You will have a happy life that is brighter than the sun at noon. Even if trouble makes it dark, it will still seem like a bright morning. 18You will be safe as you trust God. God will protect you. You will be able to rest safely.
Read all of Job 11Job 11:16 word by word
כִּי־אַ֭תָּה עָמָ֣ל תִּשְׁכָּ֑ח כְּמַ֖יִם עָבְר֣וּ תִזְכֹּֽר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 11:16
- Genesis 41:51Joseph called his firstborn son Manasseh. Joseph said, ‘God has made me forget all the trouble that my family has given to me.’
- Proverbs 31:7Then they can forget how poor they are, or how sad they are.
- Ecclesiastes 5:20People like that do not think a lot about what has happened in their lives. God helps them to be happy as they are busy with their work.
- Isaiah 54:4Do not be afraid. You will not be ashamed again. Do not be frightened of shame. Nobody will make you ashamed. You will forget the shame which you had when you were young. You will forget that you were ashamed to be alone, like a widow.
- Isaiah 65:16People in the land will use the name of the true God, when they want to say a blessing. People in the land who want to make a strong promise will also use the name of the true God. I will forget the troubles that happened in past years. I will no longer even think about them.
- John 16:21It will be like this. When a woman is soon to give birth to a baby, she is sad. She knows that it will be painful. But after the baby is born, she is happy. She forgets her pain, because now she is so happy. She is happy because her child has been born into the world.
- Revelation 7:14I replied, ‘You surely know who they are, sir.’ He said to me, ‘They are the people who have had a time of very bad trouble. Now they have come out of that. They have washed their clothes in the blood of the Lamb. Now their clothes are white and clean.
- Job 6:15But you, my friends, have not helped me when I need you. You are like streams that quickly become dry. There is no water when you need it.
- Genesis 9:11This is the covenant that I promise to keep: I will never cause water to destroy all living things on the earth again. Deep water will never again come again to destroy the earth.’
- Isaiah 12:1At that time, you will say, ‘I praise you, Lord. You were angry with me. But now, you are no longer angry. Now you have been kind to me.
- Isaiah 54:9‘This is like what I did in Noah's time. At that time, I promised that a flood of water would never again destroy the earth. Now, at this time, I have promised that I will not be angry with you again. I will not speak against you again.
Commentaries on Job 11:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16Because thou shalt forget thy misery - Thou shalt have such long and complete rest, that thou shalt scarcely remember thy labor. As waters that pass away - Like as the mountain floods, which sweep every thing before them, houses, tents, cattle, and the produce of the field, and are speedily absorbed by the sandy plains over which they run, so shalt thou remember thy sufferings: they were wasting and ruinous for the time, but were soon over and gone.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 16And remember it as waters that pass away - As calamity that has completely gone by, or that has rolled on and will return no more. The comparison is beautiful. The water of the river is borne by us, and returns no more. The rough, the swollen, the turbid stream, we remember as it foamed and dashed along, threatening to sweep everything away; but it went swiftly by, and will never come back. So with afflictions. They are soon gone. The most intense pain…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 13-20Verses 13-20 Zophar exhorts Job to repentance, and gives him encouragement, yet mixed with hard thoughts of him. He thought that worldly prosperity was always the lot of the righteous, and that Job was to be deemed a hypocrite unless his prosperity was restored. Then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; that is, thou mayst come boldly to the throne of grace, and not with the terror and amazement expressed in ch. 9:34. If we are looked upon in the…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1616. Just as when the stream runs dry (Job 6:17), the danger threatened by its wild waves is forgotten (Is 65:16) [Umbreit].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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