Job 14:20
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Job 14:20 in other translations
| BSB | You forever overpower him, and he passes on; You change his countenance and send him away. |
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| WEB | You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away. |
| ASV | Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. |
| YLT | Thou prevailest over him for ever, and he goeth, He is changing his countenance, And Thou sendest him away. |
| DARBY | Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth away; thou changest his countenance, and dismissest him. |
| BBE | You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away. |
| Webster | Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. |
What does Job 14:20 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 14:16-22
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…
Job 14:20 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 14:20
- Job 2:12
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
- Job 14:14
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
- Ecclesiastes 8:8
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
- Lamentations 4:8
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
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Context
- Job 14:19
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.
- Job 14:20
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
- Job 14:21
His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
Job 14:20 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Para siempre serás más fuerte que él, y él se va; demudarás su rostro, y enviaráslo. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tu le domines pour toujours, et il s’en va; tu changes sa face, et tu le renvoies. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Du überwältigst ihn für immer, und er geht dahin; sein Angesicht entstellend, sendest du ihn hinweg. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Roborasti eum paululum, ut in perpetuum transiret: immutabis faciem ejus, et emittes eum. |