Job 14:19
as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
18But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,
20You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.
Cross References
Genesis 7:21And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
Job 17:15where then is my hope? Who can see any hope for me?
Job 27:8For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
Ezekiel 37:11Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
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 →