Job 14:19
as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
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.
Note washest…: Heb. overflowest
The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest the hope of man.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- washest
- Heb. overflowest.
- Genesis 6:17; Genesis 7:21–23
- destroyest
- Job 19:10; Job 27:8; Psalm 30:6, 7; Ezekiel 37:11; Luke 12:19, 20