Job 14:18-22

Revised Standard Version

¹⁸ “But the mountain falls and crumbles away,
    and the rock is removed from its place;
¹⁹ the waters wear away the stones;
    the torrents wash away the soil of the earth;
    so thou destroyest the hope of man.
²⁰ Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passes;
    thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
²¹ His sons come to honor, and he does not know it;
    they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
²² He feels only the pain of his own body,
    and he mourns only for himself.”