Text -- Job 11:16 (NET)

11:16 For you will forget your trouble; you will remember it like water that has flowed away.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Job 11:16

¹ tn 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 sn 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 tn The perfect verb forms an abbreviated relative clause (without the pronoun) modifying “water.”