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x.xviii.xv-p34.3

x.xviii.xv-p34.355 words

19. The Hebrew order is more forcible: "Stones themselves are worn away by water."

things which grow out of—rather, "floods wash away the dust of the earth." 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.