Job 14:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹The 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.

Job 14:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 19:10
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.
Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
Psalms 30:6-7
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. …
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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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 16-22)

Job here returns to his complaints; and, though he is not without hope of future bliss, he finds it very hard to get over his present grievances. I. He complains of the particular hardships he apprehended himself under from the strictness of God’s justice, Job 14:16, 17. Therefore he longed to go hence to that world where God’s wrath will be past, because now he was under the continual tokens of i…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

19. The Hebrew order is more forcible: “Stones themselves are worn away by water.” things which grow out of--rather, “floods wash away the dust of the earth.” There is a gradation from “mountains” to “rocks” (Job 14:18), then “stones,” then last “dust of the earth”; thus the solid mountain at last disappears utterly.