Job 14:19
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Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man.

washest.

Genesis 6:17 Behold, I will bring the waters of a great flood upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life under heaven. All things that are in the earth shall be consumed.

Genesis 7:21-23 And all flesh was destroyed that moved upon the earth, both of fowl and of cattle, and of beasts, and of all creeping things that creep upon the earth: and all men. . . .

destroyest

Job 19:10 He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and he hath taken away my hope, as from a tree that is plucked up.

Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

Psalm 30:6,7 And in my abundance I said: I shall never be moved. . . .

Ezekiel 37:11 And he said to me: Son of man: All these bones are the house of Israel: they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost, and we are cut off.

Luke 12:19,20 And I will say to my soul: Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years. Take thy rest: eat, drink, make good cheer. . . .

Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
18A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place. 19Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man.20Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.…
Cross References
Job 7:6
My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.

Job 14:18
A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place.

Job 22:16
Who were taken away before their time, and a flood hath overthrown their foundation.

Lexicon
as water
מַ֗יִם (ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

wears away
שָׁ֥חֲקוּ (šā·ḥă·qū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7833: To rub away, beat fine, pulverize

stones
אֲבָנִ֤ים ׀ (’ă·ḇā·nîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 68: A stone

and torrents
סְפִיחֶ֥יהָ (sə·p̄î·ḥe·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5599: Something, falling off, a self-sown crop, a freshet

wash away
תִּשְׁטֹֽף־ (tiš·ṭōp̄-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7857: To gush, to inundate, cleanse, to gallop, conquer

the soil,
עֲפַר־ (‘ă·p̄ar-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6083: Dust, clay, earth, mud

so You destroy
הֶאֱבַֽדְתָּ׃ (he·’ĕ·ḇaḏ·tā)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish

a man’s
אֱנ֣וֹשׁ (’ĕ·nō·wōš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 582: Man, mankind

hope.
וְתִקְוַ֖ת (wə·ṯiq·waṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8615: A cord, expectancy


Additional Translations
as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.The waters wear the stones: you wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroy the hope of man.

The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest the hope of man.

The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong overflow a heap of the earth: and thou destroyest the hope of man.

The waters wear the stones, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

The waters wear the stones; the overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: and thou destroyest the hope of man.

The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

Stones have waters worn away, Their outpourings wash away the dust of earth, And the hope of man Thou hast destroyed.
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