17 Mine iniquity is sealed up, as in a [a]bag, and thou addest unto my wickedness.

18 And surely as the mountain that falleth, cometh to nought, and the [b]rock that is removed from his place:

19 As the water breaketh the stones, when thou overflowest the things which grow in the dust of the earth: so thou destroyest the hope of man.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 14:17 Thou layest them all together, and sufferest none of my sins unpunished.
  2. Job 14:18 He murmureth through the impatience of the flesh against God, as though he used as great severity against him as against the hard rocks, or waters that overflow, so that hereby all the occasion of his hope is taken away.

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