The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.
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Gill's Exposition
The waters wear the stones,.... Either by continual running in them, or constant dropping upon them (p); and the excavations or hollow places they: make are never filled up again, these impressions…
Barnes' Notes
The waters wear the stones - By their constant attrition they wear away even the hard rocks, and they disappear, and return no more. The sense is, that constant changes are going on in nature, and man…
Job here returns to his complaints; and, though he is not without hope of future bliss, he finds it very hard to get over his present grievances.
I. He complains of the particular hardships he…
Cambridge Bible
The turbulent waters wear away the stones of the brook by their constant action.
thou washest away, &c] Rather, the floods thereof (i. e. of the waters) do wash away the soil of the earth.
and thou…
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