The waters wear the stones: you wash away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and you destroy the hope of man.
All Commentaries on Job 14:19 Go To Job 14
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Man. Hebrew and Septuagint, "the hope of man. "(Haydock)
He must not expect to be more privileged than all other things, which time consumes. (Calmet)
Job again deplores human misery. (Menochius)