Job 11:16 You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.

◄ Job 11:16 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.

English Standard Version
You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.

New American Standard Bible
"For you would forget your trouble, As waters that have passed by, you would remember it.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For you will forget your suffering, recalling it only as waters that have flowed by.

International Standard Version
You'll forget your suffering; you'll remember it like water that has evaporated.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt also forget misery, and remember it only as waters that are passed away.

Darby Bible Translation
For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;

Young's Literal Translation
For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

11:13-20 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, Heb 10:22.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

16. Just as when the stream runs dry (Job 6:17), the danger threatened by its wild waves is forgotten (Isa 65:16) [Umbreit].