Job 11:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.”
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BSBPD
“For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away,”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“For thou dost forget misery, As waters passed away thou rememberest.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 11:16 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 9:11And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”
- Genesis 41:51Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”
- Job 6:15But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,
- Job 22:11it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.
- Proverbs 31:7Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
- Ecclesiastes 5:20For a man seldom considers the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.
- Isaiah 12:1In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.
- Isaiah 54:4Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated. For you will forget the shame of your youth and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
- Isaiah 54:9“For to Me this is like the days of Noah, when I swore that the waters of Noah would never again cover the earth. So I have sworn that I will not be angry with you or rebuke you.
- Isaiah 65:16Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth, and whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the former troubles will be forgotten and hidden from My sight.
- John 16:21A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.
- Revelation 7:14“Sir,” I answered, “you know.” So he replied, “These are the ones who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
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