Job 14:20
Good News Translation
You overpower us and send us away forever; our faces are twisted in death.

New Revised Standard Version
You prevail forever against them, and they pass away; you change their countenance, and send them away.

Contemporary English Version
You change the way we look, then send us away, wiped out forever.

New American Bible
You prevail once for all against them and they pass on; you dismiss them with changed appearance.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.

prevailest

Ecclesiastes 8:8 It is not in man's power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at hand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked.

changest

Job 14:14 Shall man that is dead, thinkest thou, live again? all the days in which I am now in warfare, I expect until my change come.

Job 2:12 And when they had lifted up their eyes afar off, they knew him not, and crying out, they wept, and rending their garments, they sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Lamentations 4:8 Heth. Their face is now made blacker than coals, and they are not known in the streets: their skin hath stuck to their bones, it is withered, and is become like wood.

Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
19Waters wear away the stones, and with inundation the ground by little and little is washed away: so in like manner thou shalt destroy man. 20Thou hast strengthened him for a little while, that he may pass away for ever: thou shalt change his face, and shalt send him away.21Whether his children come to honour or dishonour, he shall not understand.…
Cross References
Job 3:13
For now I should have been asleep and still, and should have rest in my sleep:

Job 4:20
From morning till evening they shall be cut down: and because no one understandeth, they shall perish for ever.

Job 20:7
In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?

Job 14:19
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