New English Translation
Job 11:16
16For you will forget your trouble; you will remember it like water that has flowed away.
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 iniquity is in your hand – put it far away, and do not let evil reside in your tents. 15For then you will lift up your face without blemish; you will be securely established and will not fear. For you will forget your trouble; you will remember it like water that has flowed away. 17And life will be brighter than the noonday; though there be darkness, it will be like the morning. 18And you will be secure, because there is hope; you will be protected and will take your rest in safety.
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 named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “Certainly God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father’s house.”
- Proverbs 31:7let them drink and forget their poverty, and remember their misery no more.
- Ecclesiastes 5:20For he does not think much about the fleeting days of his life because God keeps him preoccupied with the joy he derives from his activity.
- Isaiah 54:4Don’t be afraid, for you will not be put to shame! Don’t be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated! You will forget about the shame you experienced in your youth; you will no longer remember the disgrace of your abandonment.
- Isaiah 65:16Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earth will do so in the name of the faithful God; whoever makes an oath in the earth will do so in the name of the faithful God. For past problems will be forgotten; I will no longer think about them.
- John 16:21When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.
- Revelation 7:14So I said to him, “My lord, you know the answer.” Then he said to me, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb!
- Job 6:15My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.
- Genesis 9:11I confirm my covenant with you: Never again will all living things be wiped out by the waters of a flood; never again will a flood destroy the earth.”
- Isaiah 12:1At that time you will say: “I praise you, O Lord, for even though you were angry with me, your anger subsided, and you consoled me.
- Isaiah 54:9“As far as I am concerned, this is like in Noah’s time, when I vowed that the waters of Noah’s flood would never again cover the earth. In the same way I have vowed that I will not be angry at you or shout at you.
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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