Job 14:19

¹⁷ My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

¹⁸ And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.

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.

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

²¹ His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

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

Compare

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, and are spent without hope.
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Job 19:10
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
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Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
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Luke 12:19–20
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
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Genesis 6:17
And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.
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Ezekiel 37:11
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
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Psalms 30:6–7
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
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Genesis 7:21–23
And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:
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