Job 11:16
14 if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
15 then indeed you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and unafraid.
For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.
17 Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
18 You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- 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:
- WEB
- for you will forget your misery. You will remember it like waters that have passed away.
- ASV
- For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away,
- DARBY
- For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;
- BLB
- For you would forget [your] toil, [and] remember [it] as waters pass by.
- ÅB
- for du skal glemme din strev, som forbifarne vann skal du komme den i hu.
- OTB
- Du vil glemme din elendighet,
huske den som vann som har passert bort. - B1930
- for du skal glemme din møie, som forbifarne vann skal du komme den i hu.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 5:20
For a man seldom considers the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.
Read in contextIsaiah 54:9
“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.
Read in contextJohn 16:21
A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
Read in contextIsaiah 54:4
Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated. For you will forget the shame of your youth and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
Read in contextRevelation 7:14–17
“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Read in contextIsaiah 12:1–2
In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.
Read in contextGenesis 41:51
Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”
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