16 Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:
16 You will surely forget your trouble, recalling it only as waters gone by.
16 You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
16 You'll forget your troubles; they'll be like old, faded photographs.
16 Because you would forget your misery, And remember it as waters that have passed away,
16 You will forget your misery; it will be like water flowing away.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 11:16
Commentary on Job 11:13-20
(Read Job 11:13-20)
Zophar exhorts Job to repentance, and gives him encouragement, yet mixed with hard thoughts of him. He thought that worldly prosperity was always the lot of the righteous, and that Job was to be deemed a hypocrite unless his prosperity was restored. Then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; that is, thou mayst come boldly to the throne of grace, and not with the terror and amazement expressed in Hebrews 10:22.