EasyEnglish Bible 2018
Job 14:18
18But mountains fall down and they break into pieces, Rocks fall down from their places.
Job 14:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
- New International Version (NIV)“But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and as a rock is moved from its place,
- English Standard Version (ESV)"But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;
- New King James Version (NKJV)“But as a mountain falls and crumbles away, And as a rock is moved from its place;
Context of Job 14:18
16You would watch me carefully, but you would not make a note of my sins. 17You would forgive me for my sins. You would hide them away. But mountains fall down and they break into pieces, Rocks fall down from their places. 19Stones become sand when water pours over them. Floods wash away soil. In the same way, you remove hope from a person's life. 20Finally, you bring his life to an end. He leaves this world. You change his face in death and you send him away.
Read all of Job 14Job 14:18 word by word
וְ֭אוּלָם הַר־נוֹפֵ֣ל יִבּ֑וֹל וְ֝צ֗וּר יֶעְתַּ֥ק מִמְּקֹמֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 14:18
- Psalms 102:25Long ago, you built the world on a strong foundation. You created the heavens with your own hands.
- Isaiah 40:12Nobody has done what God has done! He measured all the water of the seas in one hand. He used his hand to measure the whole sky. He carefully weighed the soil of the earth. He carefully weighed the mountains in his scales, and the hills too.
- Isaiah 41:15‘Look at this! I will cause you to destroy your enemies, like a heavy weight that threshes grain. You will have new sharp metal points that are like teeth. You will thresh the mountains and you will break them into pieces. You will make the hills become like straw.
- Isaiah 54:10The mountains may shake to pieces, and the hills may disappear. But I will never take my love away from you. My covenant that brings peace between us will never finish.’ That is what the Lord who is very kind to you says.
- Isaiah 64:1Please Lord, break open the skies and come down to help us! That would make the mountains shake!
- Jeremiah 4:24I looked at the mountains. They were shaking. All the hills were moving around.
- Revelation 6:14The sky divided into two parts. It rolled up like a piece of paper. Every mountain and every island moved away from its place.
- Revelation 8:8Then the second angel made a sound with his trumpet. I saw something like a very big mountain that was burning with fire. This mountain fell down into the sea. A third of the sea became blood.
- Revelation 20:11Then I saw a great white throne. I saw that God was sitting on it. The earth and the sky rushed away from the place where he sat. There was no longer any place for them.
- Job 18:4You are so angry that you are hurting yourself. You will never change the way that things happen in the world. Your anger will not cause the earth to shake, or any rocks to move from their places.
- Matthew 27:51At that moment, the curtain inside the temple tore completely into two parts. It tore from the top down to the bottom. The ground shook and rocks broke into pieces.
Commentaries on Job 14:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18The mountain falling cometh to naught - Every thing in nature is exposed to mutability and decay: - even mountains themselves may fall from their bases, and be dashed to pieces; or be suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake; and, by the same means, the strongest and most massive rocks may be removed.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18And surely the mountain falling - Margin, “Fadeth.” The sense of this is, that the hope of man in regard to living again, must certainly fail - as a mountain falls and does not rise again; as the rock is removed, and is not replaced; or as the waters wear away the stones, and they disappear. The hope of dying man was not like the tree that would spring up again Job 14:7-9; it was like the falling mountain, the wasting waters Job 14:11, the rock that was…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 16-22Verses 16-22 Job's faith and hope spake, and grace appeared to revive; but depravity again prevailed. He represents God as carrying matters to extremity against him. The Lord must prevail against all who contend with him. God may send disease and pain, we may lose all comfort in those near and dear to us, every hope of earthly happiness may be destroyed, but God will receive the believer into realms of eternal happiness. But what a change awaits the…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. cometh to naught--literally, "fadeth"; a poetical image from a leaf (Is 34:4). Here Job falls back into his gloomy bodings as to the grave. Instead of "and surely," translate "yet"; marking the transition from his brighter hopes. Even the solid mountain falls and crumbles away; man therefore cannot "hope" to escape decay or to live again in the present world (Job 14:19). out of his place--so man (Psa 103:16).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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