Job Chapter 14 verse 18 Holy Bible
But the mountain falling cometh to nought; And the rock is removed out of its place;
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But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;
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And indeed a mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of its place;
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And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
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And surely the mountain falling cometh to naught, and the rock is removed out of its place.
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"But the mountain falling comes to nothing; The rock is removed out of its place;
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And yet, a falling mountain wasteth away, And a rock is removed from its place.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought. Job here resumes the lament 'over human infirmity, with which the chapter opens (vers. 1-12); but he has, perhaps, in this passage, his own case mote distinctly presented to his consciousness. With the wealth of metaphor which characterizes his utterances, he compares the ruin of a prosperous man (1) to the sudden collapse of a mountain; (2) to the removal of a rock out of its place; (3) to the wearing away of stones by the constant flow of streams; and . . .