Job 11:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

Job 11:18 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 3:24-26
When thou liest down, thou shalt not be afraid: yea, thou shalt lie down, and thy sleep shall be sweet. …
Psalms 3:5
I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.
Psalms 4:8
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
Psalms 43:5
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Leviticus 26:5-6
And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time: and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely. …

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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. 18)

18. The experience of thy life will teach thee there is hope for man in every trial. dig--namely, wells; the chief necessity in the East. Better, “though now ashamed (Ro 5:5, opposed to the previous ‘hope’), thou shalt then rest safely” [Gesenius];