19The 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.


In Context

16 For now you number my steps: do you not watch over my sin?

17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up my iniquity.

18 And surely the mountains falling comes to nothing, and the rock is removed out of his place.

19 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.

20 You prevail for ever against him, and he passes: you change his countenance, and send him away.

21 His sons come to honor, and he knows it not; and they are brought low, but he perceives it not of them.

Job 14:19 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:19The 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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:19The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest the hope of man.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:19The waters wear the stones, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:19The waters wear the stones; the overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: and thou destroyest the hope of man.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:19The 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 World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:19The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:19Stones have waters worn away, Their outpourings wash away the dust of earth, And the hope of man Thou hast destroyed.