Job 14:19

Job 14:19 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

19as water wears away stones

and torrents wash away the soil,

so you destroy a person’s hope.

19Water wears away stones,

Its torrents wash away the dust of the earth;

So You destroy a man’s hope.

19Water wears away the stones,

Its floods and torrents wash away the soil of the earth,

So You [O Lord] destroy the hope of man.

19as water wears away the stones

and torrents wash away the soil,

so You destroy a man’s hope.

19The waters wear the stones;

The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth:

So thou destroyest the hope of man.

19As the water breaketh the stones, when thou ouerflowest the things which growe in the dust of ye earth: so thou destroyest ye hope of man.

19The waters wear the stones.

The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth.

So you destroy the hope of man.

19Water wears away stones.

Storms wash away soil.

In the same way, you destroy a person’s hope.

19Stones become sand when water pours over them.

Floods wash away soil.

In the same way, you remove hope from a person's life.

19Waters have worn away stones, || Their outpourings wash away the dust of earth, || And You have destroyed the hope of man.