Job 14:19

¹⁷ My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.

¹⁸ But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,

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.

²¹ If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: as water wears away the stones and torrents wash away the soil, so You destroy a man’s hope.
KJV: 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.
WEB: The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.
ASV: The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest the hope of man.
DARBY: The waters wear the stones, the floods thereof wash away the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
BLB: [as] stones [by] the waters are worn away, [and] her torrents engulf the dust of the earth, so the hope of man You destroy.

ÅB: som vannet huler ut steiner og flommen skyller bort mulden, slik gjør du menneskets håp til intet;
OTB: Vann eroderer steiner,
Dets strømmer vasker bort jordens jord;
Så Du reduserer en persons håp.
B1930: som vannet huler ut stener og flommen skyller bort mulden, således gjør du menneskets håp til intet;

Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
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Job 19:10
He tears me down on every side until I am gone; He uproots my hope like a tree.
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Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
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Luke 12:19–20
Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
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Genesis 6:17
And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.
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Ezekiel 37:11
Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
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Psalms 30:6–7
In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”
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Genesis 7:21–23
And every living thing that moved upon the earth perished—birds, livestock, animals, every creature that swarms upon the earth, and all mankind.
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