Job 11:16

for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it like waters that have passed away.

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WEBBE

for you will forget your misery. You will remember it like waters that have passed away.

BSB

For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.

KJV

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

ASV

For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away,

BBE

For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

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כִּי־ ki- for H3588 אַתָּה 'a·tah you H859 עָמָל 'a·mal trouble H5999 תִּשְׁכָּח tish·kach you will forget H7911 כְּמַיִם ke·ma·yim like waters H4325 עָבְרוּ 'a·ve·ru [which] they have passed away H5674 תִזְכֹּר tiz·kor you will remember [it] H2142

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 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 face of the Anointed, our faces that were cast down may be lifted up; though polluted, being now washed with the blood of Christ, they may be lifted up without spot. We may draw near in full assurance of faith, when we are sprinkled from an evil conscience, He 10:22.

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Afflictions And Adversities

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.