Job 11:17
15 then indeed you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and unafraid.
16 For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.
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.
19 You will lie down without fear, and many will court your favor.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
- KJV
- And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
- WEB
- Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.
- ASV
- And [thy] life shall be clearer than the noonday; Though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.
- DARBY
- And life shall arise brighter than noonday; though thou be enshrouded in darkness, thou shalt be as the morning,
- BLB
- And more than noon life will arise; darkness will become like the morning.
- ÅB
- Og lysere enn middagen blir da ditt liv; mørket blir for deg som morgenen.
- OTB
- Ditt liv vil være lysere enn middagstid;
selv mørket vil være som morgenen. - B1930
- Og lysere enn middagen blir da ditt liv; mørket blir for dig som morgenen.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 58:8–10
Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.
Read in contextPsalms 37:6
He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.
Read in contextProverbs 4:18
The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
Read in contextZechariah 14:6–7
On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost.
Read in contextHosea 6:3
So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
Read in contextMicah 7:8–9
Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.
Read in contextPsalms 112:4
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright— for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.
Read in contextMalachi 4:2
“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
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