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Job 11:16

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

KJV

Miseriæ quoque oblivisceris, et quasi aquarum quæ præterierunt recordaberis.

Vulgate

καὶ τὸν κόπον ἐπιλήσῃ ὥσπερ κῦμα παρελθόν, καὶ οὐ πτοηθήσῃ·

LXX

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

ASV

כִּי אַ֭תָּה עָמָ֣ל תִּשְׁכָּ֑ח כְּ/מַ֖יִם עָבְר֣וּ תִזְכֹּֽר

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַתָּ֣ה
'th
pronoun · 1088×
וֹ
v
noun · 55×
זְכָר
zkr
verb · 231×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
מַ֖יִם
mym
noun · 580×
עֹבֵ֣ר
'br
verb · 561×
שָׁכָֽחְתִּי
shkchty
verb · 102×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Eccl 5:20 — For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
  • Gen 41:51 — And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.
  • Isa 12:1 — And in that day thou shalt say, O LORD, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.
  • Isa 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 shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowh
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 65:16 — 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 bec
  • John 16:21 — A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
  • Rev 7:14 — And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.