Job 11:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Because thou shalt forget thy misery, And remember it as waters that pass away:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ For you shall forget your misery; you shall remember it as waters that pass away.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away,

Common English Bible

¹⁶ You will forget trouble; you will remember it as water that flows past.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Misery, likewise, you would forget, or would remember only like waters that have passed by.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Thou shalt also forget misery, and remember it only as waters that are passed away.

Job 11:16 Cross References

Genesis 41:51

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s house.”

Genesis 9:11

I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Job 22:11

or darkness so that you cannot see; a flood of water covers you.

Job 6:15

My companions are treacherous like a torrent bed, like swollen streams that pass away,

Proverbs 31:7

let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.

Ecclesiastes 5:20

For they will scarcely brood over the days of their lives because God keeps them occupied with the joy of their hearts.

Isaiah 54:4

Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; do not be discouraged, for you will not suffer disgrace, for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the disgrace of your widowhood you will remember no more.

Isaiah 54:9

This is like the days of Noah to me: Just as I swore that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so I have sworn that I will not be angry with you and will not rebuke you.

Isaiah 65:16

Then whoever invokes a blessing in the land shall bless by the God of faithfulness, and whoever takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of faithfulness, because the former troubles are forgotten and are hidden from my sight.

John 16:21

When a woman is in labor, she has pain because her hour has come. But when her child is born, she no longer remembers the anguish because of the joy of having brought a human being into the world.