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19     The water grinds at the surface of stones,
        and the floodwater[a] steals the soil away.
    This is how You wreck the hope of humankind.
20         You continually overwhelm him, and he dies;
        You alter his appearance and send him away.
21     If his children rise to honor, he does not know of it;
        if they sink to humiliation, he is unaware of it.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:19 Hebrew manuscripts read, “her aftergrowth.”

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