Job 14:19

American Standard Version (1901)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 6:17 : 17 And I, behold, I do bring the flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; everything that is in the earth shall die.
  • Gen 7:21-23 : 21 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man: 22 all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, of all that was on the dry land, died. 23 And every living thing was destroyed that was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and creeping things, and birds of the heavens; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only was left, and they that were with him in the ark.
  • Job 7:6 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
  • Job 19:10 : 10 He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
  • Job 27:8 : 8 For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?
  • Ps 30:6-7 : 6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, I shall never be moved. 7 Thou, Jehovah, of thy favor hadst made my mountain to stand strong: Thou didst hide thy face; I was troubled.
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.
  • Luke 12:19-20 : 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. 20 But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

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  • 20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

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    10 But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

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    14 Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again; He shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

    15 Behold, he withholdeth the waters, and they dry up; Again, he sendeth them out, and they overturn the earth.

  • Job 28:3-4
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    3 [ Man] setteth an end to darkness, And searcheth out, to the furthest bound, The stones of obscurity and of thick darkness.

    4 He breaketh open a shaft away from where men sojourn; They are forgotten of the foot; They hang afar from men, they swing to and fro.

  • 9 He putteth forth his hand upon the flinty rock; He overturneth the mountains by the roots.

  • 16 Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

  • 15 Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers.

  • Ps 73:18-19
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    18 Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.

    19 How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

  • 3 Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

  • 4 Thou that tearest thyself in thine anger, Shall the earth be forsaken for thee? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

  • 10 He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone; And my hope hath he plucked up like a tree.

  • 9 Behold, the hope of him is in vain: Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

  • Job 4:19-20
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    19 How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

    20 Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.

  • 22 Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride [upon it] ; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.

  • Job 24:18-19
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    18 Swiftly they [pass away] upon the face of the waters; Their portion is cursed in the earth: They turn not into the way of the vineyards.

    19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: [So doth] Sheol [those that] have sinned.

  • 5 [ Him] that removeth the mountains, and they know it not, When he overturneth them in his anger;

  • 24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

  • 11 Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.

  • 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?

  • 40 Thou hast broken down all his hedges; Thou hast brought his strongholds to ruin.

  • 4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

  • 14 As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me] .

  • 4 Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

  • 15 Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

  • 20 Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night.

  • 14 and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

  • 16 For thou shalt forget thy misery; Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away,

  • 8 Who turned the rock into a pool of water, The flint into a fountain of waters.

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    19 He leadeth priests away stripped, And overthroweth the mighty.

    20 He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.

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    17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity.

    18 And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

  • 15 Then the channels of waters appeared, And the foundations of the world were laid bare, At thy rebuke, O Jehovah, At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

  • 5 God will likewise destroy thee for ever; He will take thee up, and pluck thee out of thy tent, And root thee out of the land of the living. {{Selah

  • 14 For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.

  • 15 All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.

  • 29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust.

  • 13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, And the wicked be shaken out of it?

  • 5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and become dry.

  • 12 And the high fortress of thy walls hath he brought down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

  • 13 That against God thou turnest thy spirit, And lettest words go out of thy mouth?

  • 19 But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.

  • 9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; That they turn not again to cover the earth.