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.
20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest snatches him away in the night.
20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off.
20 Terrors pour in on them like flash floods - a tornado snatches them away in the middle of the night,
20 Terrors overtake him like a flood; A tempest steals him away in the night.
20 Terror overwhelms them like a flood, and they are blown away in the storms of the night.
(Read Job 27:11-23)
Job's friends, on the same subject, spoke of the misery of wicked men before death as proportioned to their crimes; Job considered that if it were not so, still the consequences of their death would be dreadful. Job undertook to set this matter in a true light. Death to a godly man, is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country; but, to a wicked man, it is like a storm, that hurries him away to destruction. While he lived, he had the benefit of sparing mercy; but now the day of God's patience is over, and he will pour out upon him his wrath. When God casts down a man, there is no flying from, nor bearing up under his anger. Those who will not now flee to the arms of Divine grace, which are stretched out to receive them, will not be able to flee from the arms of Divine wrath, which will shortly be stretched out to destroy them. And what is a man profited if he gain the whole world, and thus lose his own soul?
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.