Job 14:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The stones are crushed small by the force of the waters; the dust of the earth is washed away by their overflowing: and so you put an end to the hope of man.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 6:17 : 17 For truly, I will send a great flow of waters over the earth, for the destruction from under the heaven of all flesh in which is the breath of life; everything on the earth will come to an end.
  • Gen 7:21-23 : 21 And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man. 22 Everything on the dry land, in which was the breath of life, came to its end. 23 Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.
  • Job 7:6 : 6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
  • Job 19:10 : 10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.
  • Job 27:8 : 8 For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?
  • Ps 30:6-7 : 6 When things went well for me I said, I will never be moved. 7 Lord, by your grace you have kept my mountain strong: when your face was turned from me I was troubled.
  • Ezek 37:11 : 11 Then he said to me, Son of man, these bones are all the children of Israel: and see, they are saying, Our bones have become dry our hope is gone, we are cut off completely.
  • Luke 12:19-20 : 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy. 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 18 But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;

  • 20 You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.

  • Job 14:10-11
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    10 But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

    11 The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

  • Job 12:14-15
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    14 Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.

    15 Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.

  • Job 28:3-4
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    3 Man puts an end to the dark, searching out to the farthest limit the stones of the deep places of the dark.

    4 He makes a deep mine far away from those living in the light of day; when they go about on the earth, they have no knowledge of those who are under them, who are hanging far from men, twisting from side to side on a cord.

  • 9 Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.

  • 16 Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

  • 15 You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.

  • Ps 73:18-19
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    18 You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

    19 How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • 3 You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

  • 4 But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

  • 10 I am broken down by him on every side, and I am gone; my hope is uprooted like a tree.

  • 9 His sneezings give out flames, and his eyes are like the eyes of the dawn.

  • Job 4:19-20
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    19 How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

    20 Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

  • 22 Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.

  • Job 24:18-19
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    18 They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

    19 Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

  • 5 It is he who takes away the mountains without their knowledge, overturning them in his wrath:

  • 24 I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

  • 11 Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

  • 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • 40 All his walls are broken down; you have given his strong towers to destruction.

  • 4 He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.

  • 14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.

  • 4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • 15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

  • 20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away.

  • 14 He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.

  • 16 For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

  • 8 Who made the rock into a water-spring, and the hard stone into a fountain.

  • Job 12:19-20
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    19 He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;

    20 He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

  • Lam 3:17-18
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    17 My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.

    18 And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.

  • 15 Then the deep beds of the waters were seen, and the bases of the world were uncovered, because of your words of wrath, O Lord, because of the breath from your mouth.

  • 5 But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)

  • 14 For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.

  • 15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

  • 29 If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

  • 13 So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

  • 5 And the waters of the sea will be cut off, and the river will become dry and waste:

  • 12 And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

  • 13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

  • 19 But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

  • 9 You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.