Job 14:19 as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy a person's hope.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy a person's hope.

English Standard Version
the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man.

New American Standard Bible
Water wears away stones, Its torrents wash away the dust of the earth; So You destroy man's hope.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil from the land, so You destroy a man's hope.

International Standard Version
Water wears away stones; floods wash away topsoil from the land— but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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

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

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

14:16-22 Job's faith and hope spake, and grace appeared to revive; but depravity again prevailed. He represents God as carrying matters to extremity against him. The Lord must prevail against all who contend with him. God may send disease and pain, we may lose all comfort in those near and dear to us, every hope of earthly happiness may be destroyed, but God will receive the believer into realms of eternal happiness. But what a change awaits the prosperous unbeliever! How will he answer when God shall call him to his tribunal? The Lord is yet upon a mercy-seat, ready to be gracious. Oh that sinners would be wise, that they would consider their latter end! While man's flesh is upon him, that is, the body he is so loth to lay down, it shall have pain; and while his soul is within him, that is, the spirit he is so loth to resign, it shall mourn. Dying work is hard work; dying pangs often are sore pangs. It is folly for men to defer repentance to a death-bed, and to have that to do which is the one thing needful, when unfit to do anything.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

19. The Hebrew order is more forcible: "Stones themselves are worn away by water."

things which grow out of—rather, "floods wash away the dust of the earth." There is a gradation from "mountains" to "rocks" (Job 14:18), then "stones," then last "dust of the earth"; thus the solid mountain at last disappears utterly.