Parallel Verses
King James Version
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
New American Standard Bible
You change his appearance and send him away.
Holman Bible
You change his appearance and send him away.
International Standard Version
You overpower him once and for all, and then he departs; you change his appearance and then send him away.
A Conservative Version
Thou prevail forever against him, and he passes. Thou change his countenance, and send him away.
American Standard Version
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Amplified
“You prevail forever against him and overpower him, and he passes on;
You change his appearance and send him away [from the presence of the living].
Bible in Basic English
You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.
Darby Translation
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth away; thou changest his countenance, and dismissest him.
Julia Smith Translation
Thou wilt overpower him forever, and he will go away: changing his face, thou wilt send him away.
King James 2000
You prevail forever against him, and he passes: you change his countenance, and send him away.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You overpower him forever, and he passes away; [you] change {his countenance}, {then} you send him away.
Modern King James verseion
You overpower him forever, and he passes; You change his face, and send him away.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou prevailest against him, so that he passeth away; thou changes his estate, and puttest him from thee.
NET Bible
You overpower him once for all, and he departs; you change his appearance and send him away.
New Heart English Bible
You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.
The Emphasized Bible
Thou dost overpower him utterly, and he departeth, Disfiguring his face, so, hast thou sent him away.
Webster
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
World English Bible
You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.
Youngs Literal Translation
Thou prevailest over him for ever, and he goeth, He is changing his countenance, And Thou sendest him away.
Interlinear
Netsach
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 14:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues To Argue His Case With God
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. 20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away. 21 His sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.
Names
Cross References
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.