Job 11:17
Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.
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16for you will forget your misery. You will remember it like waters that have passed away.
18You will be secure, because there is hope. Yes, you will search, and will take your rest in safety.
Cross References
Job 42:11Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that the LORD had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.
Psalms 92:14They will still produce fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,
Psalms 112:4Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
Isaiah 58:8Then your light will break out as the morning, and your healing will appear quickly; then your righteousness shall go before you, and the LORD’s glory will be your rear guard.
Hosea 6:3Let’s acknowledge the LORD. Let’s press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, the LORD will appear. He will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain that waters the earth.”
Zechariah 14:6It will happen in that day that there will not be light, cold, or frost.
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 →