as water wears away the stones and floods wash away the soil, so you destroy people’s hope.

水流消磨石头，所流溢的洗去地上的尘土；你也照样灭绝人的指望。

流水冲蚀石头，急流洗去地上的尘土；你也照样灭绝人的指望。

流水冲蚀石头，急流洗去地上的尘土；你也照样灭绝人的指望。

流水磨损石头，急流冲走泥土；你也这样粉碎人的希望。

流水磨蚀石头，水的泛溢冲去地上的尘土，你也这样灭绝人的指望。

水流消磨石頭，所流溢的洗去地上的塵土；你也照樣滅絕人的指望。

流水沖蝕石頭，急流洗去地上的塵土；你也照樣滅絕人的指望。

流水沖蝕石頭，急流洗去地上的塵土；你也照樣滅絕人的指望。

流水磨損石頭，急流沖走泥土；你也這樣粉碎人的希望。

流水磨蝕石頭，水的氾溢沖去地上的塵土，你也這樣滅絕人的指望。

流水消磨石頭；所瀉出的洗掃地上的塵土；人所指望的你也這樣毁滅。

水流剝石、浪湧衝沙、爾絕人之望、亦若是、

霤穿石則漸靡、浪淘沙則不見、人而絕望亦若是。

水流消石、浪淘沖沙、主使人絕望亦如此、

as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy a person’s hope.

Water wears away stones. Storms wash away soil. In the same way, you destroy a person’s hope.

the waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man.

as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil from the land, so you destroy a man’s hope.

Water wears away stones, Its torrents wash away the dust of the earth; So You destroy a man’s hope.

As water wears away stones, And as torrents wash away the soil of the earth; So You destroy the hope of man.

The waters wear the stones; The overflowings thereof wash away the dust of the earth: So thou destroyest the hope of man.

as water wears away stones and torrents wash away the soil from the land, so You destroy a man’s hope.

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.

as water wears away stones, and torrents wash away the soil, so you destroy man’s hope.

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

“ My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle. They end without hope.

He has demolished me on every side, and I am finished. He has uprooted my hope like a fallen tree.

All the living things on earth died— birds, domestic animals, wild animals, small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the people.Everything that breathed and lived on dry land died.God wiped out every living thing on the earth— people, livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and the birds of the sky. All were destroyed. The only people who survived were Noah and those with him in the boat.

“ Look! I am about to cover the earth with a flood that will destroy every living thing that breathes. Everything on earth will die.

Then he said to me,“ Son of man, these bones represent the people of Israel. They are saying,‘ We have become old, dry bones— all hope is gone. Our nation is finished.’

For what hope do the godless have when God cuts them off and takes away their life?

When I was prosperous, I said,“ Nothing can stop me now!”Your favor, O Lord, made me as secure as a mountain. Then you turned away from me, and I was shattered.

And I’ll sit back and say to myself,“ My friend, you have enough stored away for years to come. Now take it easy! Eat, drink, and be merry!”’“ But God said to him,‘ You fool! You will die this very night. Then who will get everything you worked for?’