Job 14:7-15

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⁷ “For there is hope for a tree,
    if it be cut down, that it will sprout again,
    and that its shoots will not cease.
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?
^11 (D)As waters fail from a lake
    and a river wastes away and dries up,
¹² so a man lies down and rises not again;
    till ^(E)the heavens are no more he will not awake
    or be ^(F)roused out of his sleep.
¹³ Oh that you would ^(G)hide me in ^(H)Sheol,
    that you would ^(I)conceal me ^(J)until your wrath be past,
    that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
¹⁴ If a man dies, shall he live again?
    All the days of my ^(K)service I would ^(L)wait,
    till my renewal^[a] should come.
¹⁵ You would ^(M)call, and I would answer you;
    you would long for the ^(N)work of your hands.