Tree of Life Version
Job 11:18
18You will be confident, because there is hope; you will look about you and lie down 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
16You will forget your trouble; you will remember it like water that has flowed away. 17Life will be brighter than noonday; darkness like the morning. You will be confident, because there is hope; you will look about you and lie down in safety. 19You will lie down with no one to make you afraid, many will seek your favor. 20But the eyes of the wicked will fail, and escape will elude them; their only hope is their dying 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 6:11“What is my strength, that I should hope? What is my end, that I should endure?
- Job 7:6My days fly faster 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 fulfill your vows.
- Psalms 43:5Why are You downcast, O my soul? Why are you murmuring within me? Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, the salvation of my countenance.
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked is brought down in his calamity yet the righteous has a refuge even in death.
- Romans 5:3And not only that, but we also boast in suffering—knowing that suffering produces perseverance;
- Colossians 1:27God chose to make known to them this glorious mystery regarding the Gentiles—which is Messiah in you, the hope of glory!
- Leviticus 26:5Your threshing will last until grape gathering, the grape gathering will last until the sowing time, you will eat your bread to the full, and live securely in your land.
- Psalms 3:5I cry out to Adonai with my voice, and He answers me from His holy mountain. Selah
- Psalms 4:8You have put joy in my heart— more joy than when their grain and new wine overflow.
- 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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