Job Chapter 14 verse 19 Holy Bible

ASV Job 14:19

The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest the hope of man.
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BBE Job 14:19

The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.
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DARBY Job 14:19

The waters wear the stones, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
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KJV Job 14:19

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.
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WBT Job 14:19

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.
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WEB Job 14:19

The waters wear the stones; The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth: So you destroy the hope of man.
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YLT Job 14:19

Stones have waters worn away, Their outpourings wash away the dust of earth, And the hope of man Thou hast destroyed.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - The waters wear the stones. The power of the soft element of water, by continual washing or dripping, to wear away the hardest stone, has often been noticed, and is a frequent topic in poetry. Deep ravines have been worn in course of time, through broad and lofty mountain ranges by rivers, the stone yielding little by little to the action of the water, until at last a broad chasm is made. So the continual wearing action of calamity often lays low the prosperous. Thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; rather, as in the Revised Version, the overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth; i.e. "overflows of water, inundations, floods, not only make a way through rocks, but often carry off great tracts of rich soil, hurrying the alluvium down to the sea, and leaving in its place a marsh or a waste." And thou destroyest the hope of man. Even thus from time to time does God ruin and destroy the hopes of a prosperous man.

Ellicott's Commentary