Job 11:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: ”

Job 11:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And remember it as waters that pass away - As calamity that has completely gone by, or that has rolled on and will return no more. The comparison is beautiful. The water of the river is borne by...
Job 11:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Speech of Zophar. Job has shown that the assumption, that on account of the Divine righteousness only human sin can be the cause of misfortune, leads to the worst conclusions as to God's nature. Wha...
Job 11:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Because. Syriac reads "For now".
Job 11:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: Job 11:17 He springeth up as a flower, and is cut down; Yea, he fleeth as a shadow, and endureth not. And d...
Job 11:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away. Just as when the stream runs dr...
Job 11:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The First Speech of Zophar The speech is short and unsympathetic. 1-6. Zophar rebukes Job for daring to assert his innocence.
Job 11:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XI. A FRESH ATTEMPT TO CONVICT Job 11:1-20 ZOPHAR SPEAKS THE third and presumably youngest of the three friends of Job now takes up the argument somewhat in the same strain as the others. Wit...
Job 11:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Canst Thou by Searching Find out God?” Job 11:1-20 Zophar waxes vehement as he censures Job's self-justification and his refusal to acknowledge the guilt which his friends attribute to him. Th...
Job 11:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

When Job had ceased, Zophar, the last of the three friends, answered him. His method was characterized by even greater plainness than that of Bildad. Indeed, there was a roughness and directness abou...
Job 11:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(13) В¶ If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; (14) If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. (15) For then shalt t...
Job 11:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Because thou shall forget [thy] misery ,.... Former afflictions and distresses; having an abundance of prosperity and happiness, and long continued; and so, in process of time, the miseries and dist...
Job 11:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Because thou shalt forget [thy] misery, [and] remember [it] as waters [that] pass away: Ver. 16. Because thou shalt forget thy misery ] There being no fear left, or footstep thereof remaining to r...
Job 11:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Because thou shalt forget thy misery Thy happiness shall be so great that it shall blot out the remembrance of thy past miseries; and remember it as waters that pass away Thou shalt remember it n...
Job 11:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

ZOPHAR'S CRUEL ACCUSATION (vv.1-6) Zophar was likely the youngest of the three men, and what he lacks in maturity he makes up for in bitter accusation against Job. He did not have such restraint...
Job 11:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

13 If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; 14 If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles. 15 For then sh...
Job 11:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Thou shalt be free from fear, because thy great and settled prosperity shall banish out of thy mind all those sad and irksome thoughts of thy former calamities, which naturally engender fears of the...
Job 11:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

FIRST SPEECH OF ZOPHAR Zophar follows in the same train with his companions. Misled by the same false principle—great sufferings prove great sins—he acts the part, not of a comforter, but of a r...
Job 11:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

The words we are about to read were spoken by one of Job's three friends, or what if I call them his three tormentors? These men did not speak wisely, and their argument was not altogether sound; but...
Job 11:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 11:3 . Thy lies; that is, thy device, as in the margin; jactantias tuas, thy boastings, the delicacy of thy turns of speech, to extenuate thy sins: He does not mean gross lies and untruths,...
Job 11:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away. Comfort from the future Job’s misery was extreme, and it seemed as if he could never forget it. He never did forget the f...
Job 11:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 11:1-18 Zophar, the Naamathite, the third of Job's comforters ( Job 2:11 ), and probably the youngest of them, now at last takes the word, and delivers an angry and violent s...
Job 11:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Zophar Admonishes Job to Repent
Job 11:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 5:20 ; Genesis 41:51 ; Genesis 9:11 ; Isaiah 12:1 ; Isaiah 12:2 ; Isaiah 54:4 ; Isaiah 54:9 ; Isaiah 65:16 ; Job 6:15 ; John 16:21 ; Proverbs 31:7 ; Revelation 7:14-17
Job 11:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

As waters — Thou shalt remember it no more, than men remember a land — flood, which as it comes, so it goes away suddenly.

Job 11:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 11:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job 11:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 11:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 11:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 11:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 11:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 11:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 11:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 11:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Job 11:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 11:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 11:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 11:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 11:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 11:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 11:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 11:16 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Job 11:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 11:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 11:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 11:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 11:16 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 11:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes