Job 14:18-22

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

¹⁸ “But the mountain falls and crumbles away,
    and the rock is removed from its place;^(A)
19 the waters wear away the stones;
    the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;
    so you destroy the hope of mortals.
²⁰ You prevail forever against them, and they pass away;
    you change their countenance and send them away.^(B)
21 Their children come to honor, and they do not know it;
    they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed.^(C)
22 They feel only the pain of their own bodies
    and mourn only for themselves.”