New International Version
Job 11:17
17Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning.
Job 11:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And your life would be brighter than noonday. Though you were dark, you would be like the morning.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Your life will be brighter than the noonday. Even darkness will be as bright as morning.
Context of Job 11:17
15then, free of fault, you will lift up your face; you will stand firm and without fear. 16You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by. Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning. 18You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety. 19You will lie down, with no one to make you afraid, and many will court your favor.
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וּֽ֭מִצָּהֳרַיִם יָק֣וּם חָ֑לֶד תָּ֝עֻ֗פָה כַּבֹּ֥קֶר תִּהְיֶֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 11:17
- Job 42:11All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble the Lord had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
- Psalms 37:6He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn, your vindication like the noonday sun.
- Psalms 92:14They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green,
- Psalms 112:4Even in darkness light dawns for the upright, for those who are gracious and compassionate and righteous.
- Proverbs 4:18The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day.
- Isaiah 58:8Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard.
- Micah 7:8Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.
- Zechariah 14:6On that day there will be neither sunlight nor cold, frosty darkness.
- Malachi 4:2But for you who revere my name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its rays. And you will go out and frolic like well-fed calves.
- Luke 2:26It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Messiah.
- 1 Chronicles 29:10David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, “Praise be to you, Lord, the God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
- Hosea 6:3Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.”
Commentaries on Job 11:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17Thine age shall be clearer than the noonday - The rest of thy life shall be unclouded prosperity. Thou shalt shine forth - Thou shalt be in this unclouded state, as the sun in the firmament of heaven, giving light and heat to all around thee. Thou shalt be as the morning - Thus the sun of thy prosperity shall arise, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. This is the image which the sacred writer employs, and it is correct and elegant.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17And thine age - Thy life. This does not mean old age, but the idea is, that his life would be cheerful and happy. Clearer than the noon-day - Margin, “Arise above the noon-day.” The margin is a literal rendering; but the sense is clear in the text. The idea is, that the remainder of his life would be bright as the sun if he would return to God. Thou shalt shine forth - Or rather, “thou art now in darkness, but thou shalt be as the morning.” The word used…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. 1717. age--days of life. the noon-day--namely, of thy former prosperity; which, in the poet's image, had gone on increasing, until it reached its height, as the sun rises higher and higher until it reaches the meridian (Pr 4:18). shine forth--rather, "though now in darkness, thou shall be as the morning"; or, "thy darkness (if any dark shade should arise on thee, it) shall be as the morning" (only the dullness of morning twilight, not nocturnal darkness)…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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