Job 11:17
And age rises above the noon, || You fly—you are as the morning.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
16For you forget misery, || As waters passed away you remember.
18And you have trusted because there is hope, || And searched—in confidence you lie down,
Cross References
Job 42:11And all his brothers come to him, and all his sisters, and all his former acquaintances, and they eat bread with him in his house, and bemoan him, and comfort him concerning all the calamity that YHWH had brought on him, and they each gave to him one kesitah, and each one ring of gold.
Psalms 92:14Still they bring forth in old age, || They are fat and flourishing,
Psalms 112:4Light has risen in darkness to the upright, || Gracious, and merciful, and righteous.
Isaiah 58:8Then your light breaks forth as the dawn, || And your health springs up in haste, || Your righteousness has gone before you, || The glory of YHWH gathers you.
Hosea 6:3And we know—we pursue to know YHWH, || His going forth is prepared as the dawn, || And He comes in as a shower to us, || As spring rain [and] autumn rain to the earth.”
Zechariah 14:6And it has come to pass in that day, || The precious light is not, it is dense darkness,
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 →