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.

¹⁸ They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

¹¹ Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

¹⁶ Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:

⁵ Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

² Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

³⁹ And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

²⁷ They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

²⁰ Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

⁵ And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;