the Week of Proper 15 / Ordinary 20
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Job 14:18
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But as a mountain collapses and crumblesand a rock is dislodged from its place,
"But the mountain falling comes to nothing; The rock is removed out of its place;
And surely the mountains falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of his place.
"But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;
"A mountain washes away and crumbles; and a rock can be moved from its place.
But as a mountain falls away and crumbles, and as a rock will be removed from its place,
"But as a mountain, if it falls, crumbles into nothing, And as the rock is moved from its place,
"But the falling mountain crumbles away, And the rock moves from its place;
"But the mountain falling comes to nothing; The rock is removed out of its place;
And surely as the mountaine that falleth, commeth to nought, and the rocke that is remooued from his place:
"But the falling mountain crumbles away,And the rock moves from its place;
But as a mountain erodes and crumbles and a rock is dislodged from its place,
But in the real world, mountains tumble, and rocks crumble;
"Just as a mountain erodes and falls away, its rock is removed from its place,
And indeed a mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of its place;
"Mountains fall and crumble away. Large rocks break loose and fall.
Truly a great mountain falls, and a rock moves out of its place.
There comes a time when mountains fall and solid cliffs are moved away.
"But a mountain falls; it crumbles away, and a rock moves away from its place.
And surely a falling mountain crumbles away, and the rock moves out of its place.
The mountaynes fall awaye at the last, the rockes are remoued out of their place,
But the mountain falling cometh to nought; And the rock is removed out of its place;
But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;
And surely the mountain falling crumbleth away, and the rock is removed out of its place;
The mountaines fal away at the last, the rockes are remoued out of their place.
And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, and a rock shall be worn out of its place.
And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought, and the rock is removed out of its place;
An hil fallynge droppith doun; and a rooche of stoon is borun ouer fro his place.
But the mountain falling comes to nothing; And the rock is removed out of its place;
And surely the mountain falling cometh to naught, and the rock is removed out of its place.
"But as a mountain falls and crumbles away, And as a rock is moved from its place;
"But instead, as mountains fall and crumble and as rocks fall from a cliff,
"But the mountain falls and breaks apart to nothing. The rock moves from its place.
"But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;
But, in very deed, a mountain falling, will lie prostrate, or, a rock moved out of its place:
A mountain falling cometh to nought, and a rock is removed out of its place.
"But the mountain falls and crumbles away, and the rock is removed from its place;
And yet, a falling mountain wasteth away, And a rock is removed from its place.
"Meanwhile, mountains wear down and boulders break up, Stones wear smooth and soil erodes, as you relentlessly grind down our hope. You're too much for us. As always, you get the last word. We don't like it and our faces show it, but you send us off anyway. If our children do well for themselves, we never know it; if they do badly, we're spared the hurt. Body and soul, that's it for us— a lifetime of pain, a lifetime of sorrow."
"But the falling mountain crumbles away, And the rock moves from its place;
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the mountain: Psalms 102:25, Psalms 102:26, Isaiah 40:12, Isaiah 41:15, Isaiah 41:16, Isaiah 54:10, Isaiah 64:1, Jeremiah 4:24, Revelation 6:14, Revelation 8:8, Revelation 20:11
cometh to nought: Heb. fadeth
the rock: Job 18:4, Matthew 27:51
Cross-References
And the vale of Siddim was full of slime-pits: and the Kings of Sodome & Gomorrah fled, and fell there: and they that remained, fled to the mountaine.
And Abram said to the King of Sodome, I haue lift vp my hand vnto the LORD, the most high God, the possessour of heauen and earth,
And hee said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindnesse in the latter ende, then at the beginning, in as much as thou followedst not yong men, whether poore, or rich.
And Dauid sent messengers vnto the men of Iabesh Gilead, and said vnto them, Blessed be ye of the Lord, that ye haue shewed this kindnesse vnto your lord, euen vnto Saul, and haue buried him.
I will praise the Lord according to his righteousnesse: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.
Offer vnto God thankesgiuing, and pay thy vowes vnto the most high.
I will crie vnto God most high: vnto God that perfourmeth all things for mee.
In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Sion.
Wherewith shall I come before the Lord, and bow my selfe before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calues of a yeere olde?
Howbeit the most high dwelleth not in temples made with hands, as saith the Prophet,
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And surely the mountain falling cometh to nought,.... Job here returns to his former subject of the irreparable state of man at death, which he illustrates by various other similes, as before; and first by a "mountain falling", which may be supposed, and has been fact, and when it does, it "comes to nought"; it crumbles into dust, and where it falls there it lies, and never rises up to a mountain, or to the height it had, any more; or it "withers" n, as some render it, the plants, herbs, and trees that grow upon it, wither away, see Nahum 1:4; or "it is dissolved", or "flows" o, and spreads itself over the face of the green earth it covers, and destroys with its dust and sand, which is never more gathered up to form a mountain again; so man, like unto a mountain, as kingdoms and states, and kings and princes, and great men are; the Targum instances in Lot; as a man may be said to be, that is in good health of body, and in prosperous circumstances in his family; when he falls, as he does by death, which is expressed by falling, 2 Samuel 3:38; he comes to nought, he is not any more in the land of the living, nor in the place and circumstances in which he was before:
and the rock is removed out of his place; from the mountain, of which it was a part; or elsewhere, by earthquakes, by force of winds, or strength of waters; and which, when once removed, is never returned to its place any more; so man, who in his full strength seems like a rock immovable, when death comes, it shakes and moves him out of his place, and that never knows him any more.
n יבול "marceseit", Tigurine version, Mercerus; "emarcescit", Schultens. o "Diffluit", Cocceius, Schmidt, Michaelis.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And 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 removed. The reference in the phrase before us is, probably, to a mountain that settles down and disappears - as is sometimes the case in violent convulsions of nature. It does not rise again, but is gone to reappear no more. So Job says it was of man.
And the rock is removed - An earthquake shakes it, and removes it from its foundation, and it is not replaced.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 14:18. The 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.
