Job 11:16
For thou shall forget thy misery. Thou shall remember it as waters that are passed away.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 41:51And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, for, God has made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.
Job 22:11or darkness, so that thou cannot see, and abundance of waters cover thee.
Ecclesiastes 5:20For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God answers [him] in the joy of his heart.
Isaiah 54:4Fear not, for thou shall not be ashamed. Neither be thou confounded, for thou shall not be put to shame. For thou shall forget the shame of thy youth. And the reproach of thy widowhood thou shall remember no more.
Isaiah 65:16so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth, and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth. Because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.
Revelation 7:14And I said to him, My lord, thou know. And he said to me, These are those coming out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
Matthew Henry on Job 11:14-20
13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; 14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. 15 For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: 16 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: 17 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning. 18 And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea,… Read the whole commentary →