Job 11:16
For thou shalt forget thy misery; thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away:
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 41:51And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For, said he, God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.
Job 22:11Or darkness, that thou canst not see, and abundance of waters cover thee.
Ecclesiastes 5:20For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
Isaiah 54:4Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou remember no more.
Isaiah 65:16so that he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
Revelation 7:14And I say unto him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them 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 →