Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 14:18

18. And surely as the Mountain falling cometh to nought : and the Rock is removed out of his place:

As when a great Mountain falls, either by an Earthquake or Inundation of Waters, or from any other cause, it moulders away like a fading Leaf, (as the Hebrew word signifies) and never recovers its former height and stability, and as the Rock when by the violence of Winds or Earthquake, &c. it is removed out of its place, and thrown down is never readvanced. And as the waters by continual droppings, or violent and frequent assaults, wear away, or break the stones to pieces, so as they can never be made whole again: And as thou washest away, to wit, by a great and violent Inundation which thou sendest, the things which grow out of the dust of the Earth, to wit, Herbs, & Fruits, & Plants, which once washed away are irrecoverably lost, and, or so (as this particle is oft used, i. e. in like manner, to wit, irrecoverably,) thou destroyest the hope of man; i. e. So when man dies all hope of living again in this World is utterly lost, And this seems to be the plain meaning of these two Verses. And as before he declared the hopelesness of mans restauration from death to this animal life, by way of opposition to such things as did rise in a manner from death to life, v. 7▪ &c. so now he declares it by way of similitude or resemblance to such things as being once lost and gone, are past all hopes of recovery.

Marginal references: Heb. sad[illegible: 1+ letters].