Job 11:16

Because. Syriac reads "For now".

Related Commentaries of 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...
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, lead...
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; Ye...
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 wate...
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.
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Waters ] rather, 'floods.'
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 argum...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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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....
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 wickedne...
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;...
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 bein...
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...
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 accu...
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 wic...
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...
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 sin...
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...
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 th...
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 h...
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 t...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Zophar Admonishes Job to Repent
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

because thou shalt forget thy misery, all the trouble which was now besetting him, and remember it as waters that pass away, that flow by in a stre...
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 1...
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.

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

Related Commentaries of Job 11:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Job 11:16