Job 11:16
For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
In Context
17And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.
Cross References
Genesis 41:51And to the first he gave the name Manasseh, for he said, God has taken away from me all memory of my hard life and of my father's house.
Job 22:11Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.
Isaiah 54:4Have no fear; for you will not be shamed or without hope: you will not be put to shame, for the shame of your earlier days will go out of your memory, and you will no longer keep in mind the sorrows of your widowed years.
Revelation 7:14And I said to him, My lord, you have knowledge. And he said to me, These are they who came through the great testing, and their robes have been washed and made 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 →