17 Life will be brighter than noonday, and darkness will become like morning.
17 And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.
17 And your life will be brighter than the noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.
17 Your world will be washed in sunshine, every shadow dispersed by dayspring.
17 And your life would be brighter than noonday. Though you were dark, you would be like the morning.
17 Your life will be brighter than the noonday. Even darkness will be as bright as morning.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 11:17
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.