Bible Strands
Job 11:16
For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Zophar addresses Job within his third speech, placing this statement between the promise of an unafraid posture in Job 11:15 and the assurance of restored vitality in Job 11:17.
The words — עָמָל ('a.Mal) translates to "trouble" or misery, while תִזְכֹּר (tiz.Kor) means "you will remember," framing the verse's core contrast between forgetting and recalling.
The thread — The pattern of divine comfort overriding past distress appears in Isaiah 65:16, Ecclesiastes 5:20, and Isaiah 54:4.
Why it lands — The text declares that present suffering will recede in memory like passing waters, demanding the reader shift focus from current affliction to the promised future restoration.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
Cross-references
- Isaiah 65:16 Whoever 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.
- Ecclesiastes 5:20 For a man seldom considers the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.
- Isaiah 54:4 Do 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.
- John 16:21 A 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.
- Genesis 41:51 Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”
- Isaiah 12:1 In 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.
- 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.
- Genesis 9:11 And 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.”
- Job 6:15 But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,