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


In Context

16 Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin.

17 My offenses will be sealed up in a bag; you will cover over my sin.

18 "But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place,

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

20 You overpower him once for all, and he is gone; you change his countenance and send him away.

21 If his sons are honored, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he does not see it.

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 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:19The 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.