Job 11:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For, said he, God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father's house.

Genesis 9:11

And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of the flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

Job 22:11

Or darkness, that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.

Job 6:15

My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;

Proverbs 31:7

Let him drink, and forget his poverty, And remember his misery no more.

Ecclesiastes 5:20

For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

Isaiah 54:4

Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou remember no more.

Isaiah 54:9

For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

Isaiah 65:16

so that he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

John 16:21

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world.