“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.”
"The waters wear away the stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so you destroy the hope of man." The waters that Job invoked for the tree's restoration here appear as destructive force, eroding stone and soil. God is associated with this erosive power—God destroys human hope in the same way that water destroys landscape. The verse collapses the distinction between natural process and divine wrath; God operates through natural law to accomplish destruction.
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