“The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Job 14 contains 22 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.