Job 14:8-10

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⁸ Though its root grow old in the earth,
    and ^(A)its stump die in the soil,
⁹ yet at the scent of water it will bud
    and put out ^(B)branches like a young plant.
¹⁰ But a man dies and is laid low;
    man breathes his last, and ^(C)where is he?