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Job 14:19

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14:19as water wears away stones,

and torrents55 wash away the soil,56

so you destroy man’s hope.57

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Footnotes

  1. 55 Heb “the overflowings of it”; the word סְפִיחֶיהָ (séfikheyha) in the text is changed by just about everyone. The idea of “its overflowings” or more properly “its aftergrowths” (Lev 25:5; 2 Kgs 19:29; etc.) does not fit here at all. Budde suggested reading סְחִפָה (sékhifah), which is cognate to Arabic sahifeh, “torrential rain, rainstorm”—that which sweeps away” the soil. The word סָחַף (sakhaf) in Hebrew might have a wider usage than the effects of rain.
  2. 56 Heb “[the] dust of [the] earth.”
  3. 57 The meaning for Job is that death shatters all of man’s hopes for the continuation of life.

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In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

the waters wear away the stones;

the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;

so you destroy the hope of man.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

as water wears away stones

and torrents wash away the soil,

so you destroy a person’s hope.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

as water wears away stones

and torrents wash away the soil from the land,

so you destroy a man’s hope.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

as water wears away the stones

and floods wash away the soil,

so you destroy people’s hope.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Water wears away stones;

its torrents wash away the soil of the earth;

so you destroy the hope of human beings.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

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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