Job 14:20
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 14 connects to 4 cross-references. Job meditates on the brevity and inevitability of human mortality, comparing human life to a flower cut down. He muses wistfully that if a tree is cut down it sprouts again, but a man lies down and does not rise. …
Other Translations
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Thou prevailest <FI>over<Fi> him for ever, and he goeth, He is changing his countenance, And Thou sendest him away.
You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.
Cross References
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the …
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; …
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my …
And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; …