Now I am about to bring the flood—water upon the land—to destroy all flesh in which is the spirit of life from under the sky. Everything that is on the land will perish.
Job 14:19 - Tree of Life Version as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a person’s hope. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 Water wears away boulders; floods carry away soil; you destroy a people’s hope. Catholic Public Domain Version Waters wear away stones, and with a flood the land is reduced little by little; and similarly, you will destroy man. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Waters wear away the stones: and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away. So in like manner thou shalt destroy man. |
Now I am about to bring the flood—water upon the land—to destroy all flesh in which is the spirit of life from under the sky. Everything that is on the land will perish.
“Yet as a mountain falls away and crumbles and a rock is moved from its place,
He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
They were snatched away before their time, their foundations washed away by a river.
For what hope has the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes his soul?
My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle and come to an end without hope.
Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say: ‘Our bones are dried up; our hope is lost; we are cut off—by ourselves.’