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Job 11:16
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For you will forget your suffering,recalling it only as water that has flowed by.
For you shall forget your misery; You shall remember it as waters that are passed away,
Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
You will forget your trouble and remember it only as water gone by.
For you will forget your trouble; you will remember it like water that has flowed away.
"For you would forget your trouble; You would remember it as waters that have passed by.
"For you would forget your trouble; Like waters that have passed by, you would remember it.
For you shall forget your misery; You shall remember it as waters that are passed away,
But thou shalt forget thy miserie, and remember it as waters that are past.
For you would forget your trouble,As waters that pass by, so you would remember it.
For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.
"For you will forget your misery; you'll remember it like a flood that passed through long ago;
For thou shalt forget misery; as waters that are passed away shalt thou remember it;
Then you can forget your troubles, like water that has already passed by.
Because you shall forget your misery, and you shall be led like running water;
Then all your troubles will fade from your memory, like floods that are past and remembered no more.
For you yourself will forget your misery; you will remember it as water that has flowed past.
for you shall forget your misery, and shall remember it as waters that have passed;
Then shuldest thou forget thy misery, and thynke nomore vpon it, then vpon the waters that runne by.
For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away,
For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:
For thou shalt forget thy misery; thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away;
Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that passe away:
Then shouldest thou forget thy miserie, and thinke no more vpon it, then vpon the waters that runne by.
And thou shalt forget trouble, as a wave that has passed by; and thou shalt not be scared.
For thou shalt forget thy misery; thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away:
And thou schalt foryete wretchidnesse, and thou schalt not thenke of it, as of watris that han passid.
For you shall forget your misery; You shall remember it as waters that are passed away,
Because thou shalt forget [thy] misery, [and] remember [it] as waters [that] pass away:
Because you would forget your misery, And remember it as waters that have passed away,
You will forget your misery; it will be like water flowing away.
For you would forget your trouble, remembering it as waters that have passed by.
You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
For, now, shalt thou forget, sorrow, Like waters passed away, shalt thou remember it.
Thou shalt also forget misery, and remember it only as waters that are passed away.
You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.
"For you would forget your trouble, As waters that have passed by, you would remember it.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Because: Genesis 41:51, Proverbs 31:7, Ecclesiastes 5:20, Isaiah 54:4, Isaiah 65:16, John 16:21, Revelation 7:14-17
as waters: Job 6:15, Genesis 9:11, Isaiah 12:1, Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 54:9
Cross-References
Shem's descendants had their own languages, tribes, and land. He was the older brother of Japheth and the ancestor of the tribes of Eber. Shem was the ancestor of Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram. Aram was the ancestor of Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash. Arpachshad was the father of Shelah and the grandfather of Eber, whose first son was named Peleg, because it was during his time that tribes divided up the earth. Eber's second son was Joktan. Joktan was the ancestor of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obal, Abimael, Sheba, Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. Their land reached from Mesha in the direction of Sephar, the hill country in the east.
Ships will come from Cyprus, bringing people who will invade the lands of Assyria and Eber. But finally, Cyprus itself will be ruined."
Eber named his first son Peleg, because in his time the earth was divided into tribal regions. Eber's second son was Joktan,
Serug, Reu, Peleg, Eber, Shelah;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Because thou shall forget [thy] misery,.... Former afflictions and distresses; having an abundance of prosperity and happiness, and long continued; and so, in process of time, the miseries and distresses before endured are forgotten; thus it was with Joseph in his advanced state, and therefore he called one of his sons Manasseh,
Genesis 41:51; and as it is with convinced and converted persons and believers in Christ, who, under first convictions and awakenings, are filled with sorrow and distress, on a view of their miserable estate by nature; but when Christ is revealed to them as their Saviour and Redeemer, and the love of God is shed abroad in their hearts, and they have faith and hope in Jesus, and a comfortable view of heaven and happiness, and eternal life, by him, they forget their spiritual poverty, and remember their misery no more, unless it be to magnify the riches of the grace of God; see Proverbs 31:6;
[and] remember [it] as waters [that] pass away; either the waters of the stream in a river, which, when gone, are seen and remembered no more or as waters occasioned by floods in the winter season, which when over, and summer is come, are gone and are no more discerned; and as they pass from the places where they were, so from the minds of men: or it may be respect is had to the waters of Noah's flood, which, according to the divine promise and oath, should no more go over the earth, Genesis 9:15; and being past and gone, and no fear or danger of their returning, are forgotten.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And remember it as waters that pass away - As calamity that has completely gone by, or that has rolled on and will return no more. The comparison is beautiful. The water of the river is borne by us, and returns no more. The rough, the swollen, the turbid stream, we remember as it foamed and dashed along, threatening to sweep everything away; but it went swiftly by, and will never come back. So with afflictions. They are soon gone. The most intense pain soon subsides. The days of sorrow pass quickly away. There is an outer limit of suffering, and even ingenuity cannot prolong it far. The man disgraced, and whose life is a burden, will soon die. On the checks of the solitary prisoner doomed to the dungeon for life, a “mortal paleness” will soon settle down, and the comforts of approaching death will soothe the anguish of his sad heart. The rack of torture cheats itself of its own purpose, and the exhausted sufferer is released. “The excess (of grief) makes it soon mortal.” “No sorrow but killed itself much sooner.” Shakespeare. When we look back upon our sorrows, it is like thinking of the stream that was so much swollen, and was so impetuous. Its waters rolled on, and they come not back again; and there is a kind of pleasure in thinking of that time of danger, of that flood that was then so fearful, and that has now swept on to come back no more. So there is a kind of peaceful joy in thinking of the days of sorrow that are now fled forever; in the assurance that those sad times will never, never recur again.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 11:16. Because thou shalt forget thy misery — Thou shalt have such long and complete rest, that thou shalt scarcely remember thy labour.
As waters that pass away — Like as the mountain floods, which sweep every thing before them, houses, tents, cattle, and the produce of the field, and are speedily absorbed by the sandy plains over which they run, so shalt thou remember thy sufferings: they were wasting and ruinous for the time, but were soon over and gone.
