King James Version (KJV)
Job 14:19
“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.”
Verse in context — Job 14
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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.
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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.
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His sons come to honour, and he knoweth [it] not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth [it] not of them.
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