Job 11 · Verse 16

Job 11:16

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
Job 11:16, King James Version

Job 11:16 in other translations

BSBFor you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.
WEBfor you will forget your misery. You will remember it like waters that have passed away.
ASVFor thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away,
YLTFor thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.
DARBYFor thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;
BBEFor your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:
WebsterBecause thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

What does Job 11:16 mean?

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

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 16 Because thou shalt forget thy misery - Thou shalt have such long and complete rest, that thou shalt scarcely remember thy labor. As waters that pass away - Like as the mountain floods, which sweep every thing before them, houses, tents, cattle, and the produce of the field, and are speedily absorbed by the sandy plains over which they run, so shalt thou remember thy sufferings: they were wasting and ruinous for the time, but were soon over and gone.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 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…

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Job 11:16 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּי\־ki-forH3588
אַ֭תָּה'A.tahyouH859
עָמָ֣ל'a.MaltroubleH5999
תִּשְׁכָּ֑חtish.Kachyou will forgetH7911
כְּמַ֖יִםke.Ma.yimlike watersH4325
עָבְר֣וּ'a.ve.Ru[which] they have passed awayH5674
תִזְכֹּֽר\׃tiz.Koryou will remember [it]H2142

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 11:16

  • Isaiah 65:16

    That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

  • Ecclesiastes 5:20

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

  • Isaiah 54:9

    For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

  • John 16:21

    A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

  • Isaiah 54:4

    Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more.

  • Revelation 7:14-17

    And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

  • 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. Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Job 6:15

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

  • Job 22:11

    Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

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Because.
Ge 41:51; Pr 31:7; Ec 5:20; Isa 54:4; 65:16; Joh 16:21; Re 7:14-17
as waters.
6:15; Ge 9:11; Isa 12:1,2; 54:9

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Context

  • Job 11:15

    For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear:

  • Job 11:16

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

  • Job 11:17

    And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

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Job 11:16 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y olvidarás tu trabajo, ó te acordarás de él como de aguas que pasaron:
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Car tu oublieras ta misère, tu t’en souviendras comme des eaux écoulées;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Denn du wirst die Mühsal vergessen, wirst ihrer gedenken wie vorübergeflossener Wasser;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Miseriæ quoque oblivisceris, et quasi aquarum quæ præterierunt recordaberis.