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 Hebrew order is more forcible. 'Stones themselves are worn away by water.'
Thou washest away the things which grow out of - rather, 'its floods wash away the dust of the earth' х tishTop (H7857) cªpiycheyhaa (H5599)]. There is a gradation from "mountains" to "rocks" (Job 14:18), then "stones," then, last, "dust of the earth;" thus the solid mountain at last disappears utterly. Since those natural objects, when once destroyed, remain in the same state unrestored, so man, once dead, has no hope of living again in the present order of things.