Job 11:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

Job 11:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 58:8-10
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. …
Psalms 37:6
And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.
Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Zechariah 14:6-7
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark: …
Micah 7:8-9
Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD shall be a light unto me. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-20)

Zophar, as the other two, here encourages Job to hope for better times if he would but come to a better temper. I. He gives him good counsel (Job 11:13, 14), as Eliphaz did (Job 5:8), and Bildad, Job 8:5. He would have him repent and return to God. Observe the steps of that return. 1. He must look within, and get his mind changed and the tree made good. He must prepare his heart; there the work of…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 17)

17. age--days of life. the noon-day--namely, of thy former prosperity; which, in the poet’s image, had gone on increasing, until it reached its height, as the sun rises higher and higher until it reaches the meridian (Pr 4:18). shine forth--rather, “though now in darkness, thou shall be as the morning”; or, “thy darkness (if any dark shade should arise on thee, it) shall be as the morning” (only t…