Job 14:18
16 For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
17 My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.
But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,
19 as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
20 You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,
- KJV
- And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
- WEB
- “But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place.
- ASV
- But the mountain falling cometh to nought; And the rock is removed out of its place;
- DARBY
- And indeed a mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of its place;
- BLB
- But [as] a falling mountain wastes away, and [as] a rock moves from its place,
- ÅB
- Men som et fjell faller og smuldres bort, og en klippe flyttes fra sitt sted,
- OTB
- “Men et fjell kollapser og smuldrer bort,
Og en stein flyttes fra sitt sted; - B1930
- Men som et fjell faller og smuldres bort, og en klippe flyttes fra sitt sted,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Revelation 6:14
The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.
Read in contextJob 18:4
You who tear yourself in anger— should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?
Read in contextJeremiah 4:24
I looked at the mountains, and behold, they were quaking; all the hills were swaying.
Read in contextPsalms 102:25–26
In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
Read in contextIsaiah 54:10
Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
Read in contextIsaiah 64:1
If only You would rend the heavens and come down, so that mountains would quake at Your presence,
Read in contextRevelation 20:11
Then I saw a great white throne and the One seated on it. Earth and heaven fled from His presence, and no place was found for them.
Read in contextRevelation 8:8
Then the second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned to blood,
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