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16 For you[a] will forget your trouble;[b]
you will remember it
like water that[c] has flowed away.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 11:16 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. Job 11:16 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. Job 11:16 tn The perfect verb forms an abbreviated relative clause (without the pronoun) modifying “water.”

16 You will surely forget your trouble,(A)
    recalling it only as waters gone by.(B)

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

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

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