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Job 11:17

Job 11:17 is verse 17 of Job chapter 11, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

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King James Version

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

World English Bible

Life will be clearer than the noonday. Though there is darkness, it will be as the morning.

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Job 11:15–19 · Berean Standard Bible

15 then indeed you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and unafraid.

16 For you will forget your misery, recalling it only as waters gone by.

17 Your life will be brighter than noonday; its darkness will be like the morning.

18 You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.

19 You will lie down without fear, and many will court your favor.

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 42:11

All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

Job 42:12

So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

Job 42:13

And he also had seven sons and three daughters.

Job 42:14

He named his first daughter Jemimah, his second Keziah, and his third Keren-happuch.

Job 42:15

No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.

Job 42:16

After this, Job lived 140 years and saw his children and their children to the fourth generation.

Job 42:17

And so Job died, old and full of years.

Psalms 37:6

He will bring forth your righteousness like the dawn, your justice like the noonday sun.

Psalms 92:14

In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,

Psalms 112:4

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright— for the gracious, compassionate, and righteous.

Proverbs 4:18

The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.

Isaiah 58:8

Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

Isaiah 58:9

Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and malicious talk,

Isaiah 58:10

and if you give yourself to the hungry and satisfy the afflicted soul, then your light will go forth in the darkness, and your night will be like noonday.

Micah 7:8

Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will arise; though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light.

Micah 7:9

Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for me. He will bring me into the light; I will see His righteousness.

Zechariah 14:6

On that day there will be no light, no cold or frost.

Zechariah 14:7

It will be a day known only to the LORD, without day or night; but when evening comes, there will be light.

Malachi 4:2

“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.

Luke 2:26

The Holy Spirit had revealed to him that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.

Luke 2:27

Led by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts. And when the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for Him what was customary under the Law,

Luke 2:28

Simeon took Him in his arms and blessed God, saying:

Luke 2:29

“Sovereign Lord, as You have promised, You now dismiss Your servant in peace.

Luke 2:30

For my eyes have seen Your salvation,

Luke 2:31

which You have prepared in the sight of all people,

Luke 2:32

a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to Your people Israel.”

1 Chronicles 29:10

Then David blessed the LORD in the sight of all the assembly and said: “May You be blessed, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.

Hosea 6:3

So let us know— let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.

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