New American Standard Bible 1995
Job 11:18
18Then you would trust, because there is hope; And you would look around and rest securely.
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
16For you would forget your trouble, As waters that have passed by, you would remember it. 17Your life would be brighter than noonday; Darkness would be like the morning. Then you would trust, because there is hope; And you would look around and rest securely. 19You would lie down and none would disturb you, And many would entreat your favor. 20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, And there will be no escape for them; And their hope is to breathe their last.”
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וּֽ֭בָטַחְתָּ כִּי־יֵ֣שׁ תִּקְוָ֑ה וְ֝חָפַרְתָּ֗ לָבֶ֥טַח תִּשְׁכָּֽב׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 11:18
- Job 6:11What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should endure?
- Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And come to an end without hope.
- Job 22:27You will pray to Him, and He will hear you; And you will pay your vows.
- Psalms 43:5Why are you in despair, O my soul? And why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked is thrust down by his wrongdoing, But the righteous has a refuge when he dies.
- Romans 5:3And not only this, but we also exult in our tribulations, knowing that tribulation brings about perseverance;
- Colossians 1:27to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
- Leviticus 26:5Indeed, your threshing will last for you until grape gathering, and grape gathering will last until sowing time. You will thus eat your food to the full and live securely in your land.
- Psalms 3:5I lay down and slept; I awoke, for the Lord sustains me.
- Psalms 4:8In peace I will both lie down and sleep, For You alone, O Lord, make me to dwell in safety.
- Proverbs 3:24When you lie down, you will not be afraid; When you lie down, 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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