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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.

KJV

lapides excavant aquæ, et alluvione paulatim terra consumitur : et hominem ergo similiter perdes.

Vulgate

λίθους ἐλέαναν ὕδατα, καὶ κατέκλυσεν ὕδατα ὕπτια τοῦ χώματος τῆς γῆς· καὶ ὑπομονὴν ἀνθρώπου ἀπώλεσας.

LXX

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

ASV

אֲבָנִ֤ים שָׁ֥חֲקוּ מַ֗יִם תִּשְׁטֹֽף סְפִיחֶ֥י/הָ עֲפַר אָ֑רֶץ וְ/תִקְוַ֖ת אֱנ֣וֹשׁ הֶאֱבַֽדְתָּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֱנ֣וֹשׁ
'nvsh
noun · 41×
אֶ֣בֶן
'bn
noun · 267×
אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
ם
m
verb · 183×
ם
m
verb · 4×
מַ֖יִם
mym
noun · 580×
סָפִ֔יחַ
spych
noun · 5×
עָפָ֥ר
'pr
noun · 109×
שָׁטַ֣ף
shtp
verb · 31×
תִּקְוָ֑ה
tqvh
noun · 34×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Job 7:6 — My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
  • Job 19:10 — He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
  • Job 22:16 — Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
  • Job 27:8 — For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
  • Prov 19:13 — A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.