Job 11:16

For you ¹  will forget your trouble; ²  you will remember it like water that ³  has flowed away.

biblegateway Job 11:16

You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.

biblegateway Job 11:16

"For you would forget your trouble, As waters that have passed by, you would remember it.

biblegateway Job 11:16

You will forget your misery. It will all be gone like water under the bridge.

biblegateway Job 11:16

You'll forget your troubles; they'll be like old, faded photographs.

SABDAweb Job 11:16

For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

bibleoremus Job 11:16

You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.

biblegateway Job 11:16

Because you would forget your misery, And remember it as waters that have passed away,

biblegateway Job 11:16

For you ¹  will forget your trouble; ²  you will remember it like water that ³  has flowed away.

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.”