Job 14:20

Thou drivest him to an end, and he is gone: 1 Thou settest thy face against him, and sendest him away; 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

19The waters wear the stones, 1 And waters falling headlong overflow a heap of the earth: 1 And thou destroyest the hope of man. 1

21And though his children be multiplied, he knows it not; 1 And if they be few, he is not aware. 1

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Cross References

Job 2:12And when they saw him from a distance they did not know him; 1 And they cried with a loud voice, and wept, 1 And rent every one his garment, 1 And sprinkled dust upon their heads, 1

Ecclesiastes 8:8There is no man that has power over the spirit 1 To retain the spirit; 1 And there is no power in the day of death: 1 And there is no discharge in the day of battle; 1 Neither shall ungodliness save her votary. 1

Matthew Henry on Job 14:17-22

Complainings of Job. ( b. c. 1520.) 16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin? 17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. 18 And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place. 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. 20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him… Read the whole commentary →

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