Job 14:19
Strong's Lexicon
as water
מַ֗יִם (ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4325: 1) water, waters 1a) water 1b) water of the feet, urine 1c) of danger, violence, transitory things, refreshment (fig.)

wears away
שָׁ֥חֲקוּ (šā·ḥă·qū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 7833: 1) to rub away, beat fine, pulverise 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to rub away 1a1a) of incense, stones 1a1b) of enemies (fig)

stones
אֲבָנִ֤ים ׀ (’ă·ḇā·nîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 68: 1) stone (large or small) 1a) common stone (in natural state) 1b) stone, as material 1b1) of tablets 1b2) marble, hewn stones 1c) precious stones, stones of fire 1d) stones containing metal (ore), tool for work or weapon 1e) weight 1f) plummet (stones of destruction) also made of metal 1g) stonelike objects, eg hailstones, stony heart, ice 1h) sacred object, as memorial Samuel set up to mark where God helped Israel to defeat the Philistines 1i) (simile) 1i1) sinking in water, motionlessness 1i2) strength, firmness, solidity 1i3) commonness 1j) (metaph) 1j1) petrified with terror 1j2) perverse, hard heart

and torrents
סְפִיחֶ֥יהָ (sə·p̄î·ḥe·hā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5599: 1) outpouring 2) growth from spilled kernels, after-growth, volunteer plants

wash away
תִּשְׁטֹֽף־ (tiš·ṭōp̄-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7857: 1) to wash, rinse, overflow, engulf, rinse or wash off 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to overflow 1a2) to flow, run 1a3) to rinse or wash off 1b) (Niphal) to be swept away, be rinsed out 1c) (Pual) to be rinsed, be scoured and rinsed

the soil
עֲפַר־ (‘ă·p̄ar-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6083: 1) dry earth, dust, powder, ashes, earth, ground, mortar, rubbish 1a) dry or loose earth 1b) debris 1c) mortar 1d) ore

אָ֑רֶץ (’ā·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: 1) land, earth 1a) earth 1a1) whole earth (as opposed to a part) 1a2) earth (as opposed to heaven) 1a3) earth (inhabitants) 1b) land 1b1) country, territory 1b2) district, region 1b3) tribal territory 1b4) piece of ground 1b5) land of Canaan, Israel 1b6) inhabitants of land 1b7) Sheol, land without return, (under) world 1b8) city (-state) 1c) ground, surface of the earth 1c1) ground 1c2) soil 1d) (in phrases) 1d1) people of the land 1d2) space or distance of country (in measurements of distance) 1d3) level or plain country 1d4) land of the living 1d5) end(s) of the earth 1e) (almost wholly late in usage) 1e1) lands, countries 1e1a) often in contrast to Canaan

so You destroy
הֶאֱבַֽדְתָּ׃ (he·’ĕ·ḇaḏ·tā)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6: 1) perish, vanish, go astray, be destroyed 1a) (Qal) 1a1) perish, die, be exterminated 1a2) perish, vanish (fig.) 1a3) be lost, strayed 1b) (Piel) 1b1) to destroy, kill, cause to perish, to give up (as lost), exterminate 1b2) to blot out, do away with, cause to vanish, (fig.) 1b3) cause to stray, lose 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to destroy, put to death 1c1a) of divine judgment 1c2) object name of kings (fig.)

a man’s
אֱנ֣וֹשׁ (’ĕ·nō·wōš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 582: 1) man, mortal man, person, mankind 1a) of an individual 1b) men (collective) 1c) man, mankind

hope.
וְתִקְוַ֖ת (wə·ṯiq·waṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 8615: 1) cord 2) hope, expectation 2a) hope 2b) ground of hope 2c) things hoped for, outcome

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.

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.

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. 

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

New Living Translation
as water wears away the stones and floods wash away the soil, so you destroy people'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!

NET Bible
as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man's hope.

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.

English Revised Version
The waters wear the stones; the overflowings 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.
















Cross References
Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Job 14:18
And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.

Job 22:16
Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

Job 1:1
There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.

Job 14:17
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

Job 14:16
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

Job 14:20
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

Job 14:21
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

Job 14:22
But his flesh upon him shall have pain, and his soul within him shall mourn.
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