Job 11:16

For you ¹  will forget your trouble; ²  you will remember it like water that ³  has flowed away.

Ge 9:11; Ge 41:51; Job 6:15; Pr 31:7; Ec 5:20; Isa 12:1,2; Isa 54:4; Isa 54:9; Isa 65:16; Joh 16:21; Re 7:14-17

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