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Job 11:16

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11:16For you42 will forget your trouble;43

you will remember it

like water that44 has flowed away.

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Footnotes

  1. 42 For a second time (see v. 13) Zophar employs the emphatic personal pronoun. Could he be providing a gentle reminder that Job might have forgotten the sin that has brought this trouble? After all, there will come a time when Job will not remember this time of trial.
  2. 43 It is interesting to note in the book that the resolution of Job’s trouble did not come in the way that Zophar prescribed it.
  3. 44 The perfect verb forms an abbreviated relative clause (without the pronoun) modifying “water.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

You will forget your misery;

you will remember it as waters that have passed away.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You will surely forget your trouble,

recalling it only as waters gone by.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For you will forget your suffering,

recalling it only as water that has flowed by.

NLTNew Living Translation

You will forget your misery;

it will be like water flowing away.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For you yourself will forget your misery;

you will remember it as water that has flowed past.

KJV 1900King James Version

Because thou shalt forget thy misery,

And remember it as waters that pass away: