Job 14:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of mortals.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ As waters wear away the stones and as floods wash away the soil of the earth, so You [O Lord] destroy the hope of man.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁹ Water wears away boulders; floods carry away soil; you destroy a people’s hope.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ Waters wear away stones, and with a flood the land is reduced little by little; and similarly, you will destroy man.

Job 14:19 Cross References

Ezekiel 37:11

Then he said to me, “Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.’

Job 27:8

For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts them off, when God takes away their lives?

Job 19:10

He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; he has uprooted my hope like a tree.

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope.

Genesis 6:17

For my part, I am going to bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything that is on the earth shall die.

Job 14:18

“But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away by a flood.

Job 17:15

where then is my hope? Who will see my hope?