Silent Action of Rain
Dr. Geikie's, Earth Sculpture. Job 14:17 My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and you sew up my iniquity. The most conspicuous agent employed (in the disintegration of rocks) is rain. Rain is not chemically pure, but always contains some proportion of oxygen and carbonic acid absorbed from the atmosphere; and after it reaches the ground organic acids are derived by it from the decaying vegetable and animal matter with which soils are more or less impregnated. Armed with such chemical agents, it attacks the various minerals of which rocks are composed, and thus, sooner or later, these minerals break up...In all regions where rain falls the result of this chemical action is conspicuous; soluble rocks are everywhere dissolving, while partially soluble rocks are becoming rotten and disintegrated. In limestone areas it can be shown that sometimes hundreds of feet of rock have thus been gradually and silently removed from the surface of the land. And the great depth now and again attained by rotted rock testifies likewise to the destructive action of rain water percolating from the surface. (Dr. Geikie's "Earth Sculpture.) Parallel Verses KJV: My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. WEB: My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.