God’s Word Translation
Job 11:18
18You will feel confident because there’s hope, and you will look around and rest in safety.
Job 11:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.
- New International Version (NIV)You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And you will feel secure, because there is hope; you will look around and take your rest in security.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And you would be secure, because there is hope; Yes, you would dig around you, and take your rest in safety.
Context of Job 11:18
16⌞Then⌟ you will forget your misery and remember it like water that has flowed downstream. 17Then your life will be brighter than the noonday sun. The darkness in your life will become like morning. You will feel confident because there’s hope, and you will look around and rest in safety. 19You will lie down with no one to frighten you, and many people will try to gain your favor. 20But the wicked will lose their eyesight. Their escape route will be closed. Their only hope is to take their last breath.”
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וּֽ֭בָטַחְתָּ כִּי־יֵ֣שׁ תִּקְוָ֑ה וְ֝חָפַרְתָּ֗ לָבֶ֥טַח תִּשְׁכָּֽב׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 11:18
- Job 6:11What strength do I have ⌞left⌟ that I can go on hoping? What goal do I have that I would want to prolong my life?
- Job 7:6My days go swifter than a weaver’s shuttle. They are spent without hope.
- Job 22:27You will pray to him, and he will listen to you, and you will keep your vow to him.
- Psalms 43:5Why are you discouraged, my soul? Why are you so restless? Put your hope in God, because I will still praise him. He is my savior and my God.
- Proverbs 14:32A wicked person is thrown down by his own wrongdoing, but even in his death a righteous person has a refuge.
- Romans 5:3But that’s not all. We also brag when we are suffering. We know that suffering creates endurance,
- Colossians 1:27God wanted his people throughout the world to know the glorious riches of this mystery—which is Christ living in you, giving you the hope of glory.
- Leviticus 26:5Threshing time will last until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until planting. You will eat all you want and live securely in your land.
- Psalms 3:5I lie down and sleep. I wake up again because the Lord continues to support me.
- Psalms 4:8I fall asleep in peace the moment I lie down because you alone, O Lord, enable me to live securely.
- Proverbs 3:24When you lie down, you will not be afraid. As you lie there, your sleep will be sweet.
Commentaries on Job 11:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18And thou shalt be secure - Thou shalt not fear any farther evils to disturb thy prosperity, for thou shalt have a well-grounded hope and confidence that thou shalt no more be visited by adversity. Yea, thou shalt dig - I believe this neither refers to digging his grave, nor to curiously investigating surrounding circumstances; but to the custom of digging for water in the places where they pitched their tents. It was a matter of high importance in Asiatic…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18And thou shalt be secure - You will feel confident that your prosperity will be permanent, and you will be free from the distressing anxieties and fears which you now have. Thou shalt dig about thee - The Chaldee renders this, “thou shalt prepare for thyself a sepulchre, and shalt lie down in safety.” The word used here (חפר châphar ) has two significations. It means, (1) “to dig” - as, e. g. a well, and under this signification to search out, to…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. 1818. The experience of thy life will teach thee there is hope for man in every trial. dig--namely, wells; the chief necessity in the East. Better, "though now ashamed (Ro 5:5, opposed to the previous 'hope'), thou shalt then rest safely" [Gesenius];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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