Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thou prevailest against him, so that he passeth away; thou changes his estate, and puttest him from thee.
New American Standard Bible
You change his appearance and send him away.
King James Version
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest 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.
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 pierce through the very stones by little and little, the floods wash away the gravel and the earth. Even so destroyest thou the hope of man in like manner. 20 Thou prevailest against him, so that he passeth away; thou changes his estate, and puttest him from thee. 21 Whether his children come to worship or no, he cannot tell: And if they be men of low degree, he knoweth not.
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Cross References
Job 2:12
So when they lift up their eyes afar off, they knew him not. Then they cried, and wept: then every one of them rent his clothes, and sprinkled dust upon their heads in the air.
Job 14:14
May a dead man live again? All the days of this my pilgrimage am I looking, till my changing shall come.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
Neither is there any man that hath power over the spirit, to keep still the spirit, nor to have any power in the time of death: it is not he also that can make an end of the battle, neither may ungodliness deliver him that meddleth withall.
Lamentations 4:8
{Khet} But now their faces are very black: Insomuch, that thou shouldest not know them in the streets. Their skin cleaveth to their bones; It is withered, and become like a dry stock.