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18 “But the mountain falling comes to nothing.
    The rock is removed out of its place;
19 The waters wear the stones.
    The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth.
    So you destroy the hope of man.
20 You forever prevail against him, and he departs.
    You change his face, and send him away.
21 His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it.
    They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
22 But his flesh on him has pain,
    and his soul within him mourns.”

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18 “Mountains fall and crumble;
    rocks are dislodged from their places.
19 Water wears away stones;
    floods wash away topsoil from the land—
        but you destroy the hope of human beings just like that!
20 You overpower him once and for all, and then he departs;
    you change his appearance and then send him away.

21 “If his children are honored, he doesn’t know it;
    if they become insignificant, he never perceives it.
22 He feels only his own pain,[a]
    and grieves only for himself.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 14:22 Lit. flesh