Job 11:17
And your life will be brighter than day; though it is dark, it will become like the morning.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
16For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:
18And you will be safe because there is hope; after looking round, you will take your rest in quiet;
Cross References
Job 42:11And all his brothers and sisters, and his friends of earlier days, came and took food with him in his house; and made clear their grief for him, and gave him comfort for all the evil which the Lord had sent on him; and they all gave him a bit of money and a gold ring.
Psalms 92:14\92:13\Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens.
Psalms 112:4For the upright there is a light shining in the dark; he is full of grace and pity.
Isaiah 58:8Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.
Hosea 6:3And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
Zechariah 14:6And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice;
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 →