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

New Living Translation
You will forget your misery; it will be like water flowing away.

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

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

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

New King James Version
Because you would forget your misery, And remember it as waters that have passed away,

New American Standard Bible
“For you would forget your trouble; Like waters that have passed by, you would remember it.

NASB 1995
“For you would forget your trouble, As waters that have passed by, you would remember it.

NASB 1977
“For you would forget your trouble, As waters that have passed by, you would remember it.

Legacy Standard Bible
For you would forget your trouble, As waters that pass by, so you would remember it.

Amplified Bible
“For you would forget your trouble; You would remember it as waters that have passed by.

Christian Standard Bible
For you will forget your suffering, recalling it only as water that has flowed by.

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And then you shall forget your misery, and like running water you shall be led away

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And thou shalt forget trouble, as a wave that has passed by; and thou shalt not be scared.

Contemporary English Version
Your troubles will go away like water beneath a bridge,

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

English Revised Version
For thou shalt forget thy misery; thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[Then] you will forget your misery and remember it like water that has flowed downstream.

Good News Translation
Then all your troubles will fade from your memory, like floods that are past and remembered no more.

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

JPS Tanakh 1917
For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away;

Literal Standard Version
For you forget misery, | As waters passed away you remember.

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

New American Bible
For then you shall forget your misery, like water that has ebbed away you shall regard it.

NET Bible
For you will forget your trouble; you will remember it like water that has flowed away.

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

New Heart English Bible
for you shall forget your misery. You shall remember it as waters that are passed away.

Webster's Bible Translation
Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

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

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

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Context
Zophar Rebukes Job
15then indeed you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and unafraid. 16For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by. 17Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.…

Cross References
Job 22:11
it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Isaiah 65:16
Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth, and whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the former troubles will be forgotten and hidden from My sight.


Treasury of Scripture

Because you shall forget your misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

Because

Genesis 41:51
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

Proverbs 31:7
Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

Ecclesiastes 5:20
For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

as waters

Job 6:15
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

Genesis 9:11
And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

Isaiah 12:1,2
And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me…

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1. Zophar reproves Job for justifying himself
5. God's wisdom is unsearchable
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Verse 16. - Because thou shalt forget thy misery. All thy past misery shall be clean swept away from thy remembrance, because of the happy condition whereto thou shalt be raised (see vers. 18, 19). "Sorrow's memory" is not always "a sorrow still." And remember it as waters that pass away; i.e. remember it no more than a man remembers the shower that has passed away or the pool that is dried up.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you
אַ֭תָּה (’at·tāh)
Pronoun - second person masculine singular
Strong's 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

will forget
תִּשְׁכָּ֑ח (tiš·kāḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7911: To mislay, to be oblivious of, from want of memory, attention

[your] misery,
עָמָ֣ל (‘ā·māl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5999: Toil, wearing effort, worry, wheth, of body, mind

recalling
תִזְכֹּֽר׃ (ṯiz·kōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 2142: To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male

it only as waters
כְּמַ֖יִם (kə·ma·yim)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

gone by.
עָבְר֣וּ (‘ā·ḇə·rū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5674: To pass over, through, or by, pass on


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