OLD TESTAMENT

Job 14:19

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The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

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Verse 19. Man. Hebrew and Septuagint “the hope of man.” Bible.—He must not expect to be more privileged than all other things, which time consumes. Calmet.—Job again deplores human misery. Menochius.

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