Job 11:16

But thou shalt forget thy miserie, and remember it as waters that are past.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

In Context

15The truely shalt thou lift vp thy face without spot, and shalt be stable, and shalt not feare.

17Thine age also shall appeare more cleare then the noone day: thou shalt shine and bee as the morning.

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Cross References

Genesis 41:51And Ioseph called the name of the first borne Manasseh: for God, said he, hath made me forget all my labour and al my fathers houshold.

Job 22:11Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, and abundance of waters shall couer thee.

Isaiah 54:4Feare not: for thou shalt not be ashamed, neither shalt thou be confounded: for thou shalt not bee put to shame: yea, thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproch of thy widdowhoode any more.

Isaiah 65:16He that shall blesse in the earth, shall blesse himselfe in the true God, and he that sweareth in the earth, shall sweare by the true God: for the former troubles are forgotten, and shall surely hide themselues from mine eyes.

Revelation 7:14And I saide vnto him, Lord, thou knowest. And he saide to me, These are they, which came out of great tribulation, and haue washed their long robes, and haue made their long robes white in the blood of the Lambe.

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 →

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