Job 14:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ You prevail forever against them, and they pass away; you change their countenance and send them away.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ You prevail forever against him, and he passes on; You change his appearance [in death] and send him away [from the presence of the living].

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

Common English Bible

²⁰ You overpower them relentlessly, and they die; you change their appearance and send them away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ You have strengthened him for a little while, so that he may cross over into eternity. You will change his face and send him forth.

Job 14:20 Cross References

Lamentations 4:8

Now their visage is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as wood.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one has power over the wind to restrain the wind or power over the day of death; there is no discharge from the battle, nor does wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Job 14:14

If mortals die, will they live again? All the days of my service I would wait until my release should come.

Job 2:12

When they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him, and they raised their voices and wept aloud; they tore their robes and threw dust in the air upon their heads.

Job 3:13

Now I would be lying down and quiet; I would be asleep; then I would be at rest

Job 4:20

Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish forever without any regarding it.

Job 20:7

they will perish forever like their own dung; those who have seen them will say, ‘Where are they?’