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Though its root grows old in the earth
    and its stump dies in the ground,

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Its roots may grow old in the ground
    and its stump(A) die in the soil,

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36 Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.(A)

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36 How foolish!(A) What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.(B)

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19 Your dead shall live; their corpses[a] shall rise.
    Those who dwell in the dust will awake and shout for joy![b]
For your dew is a radiant dew,
    and the earth will give birth to those long dead.[c](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 26.19 Cn Compare Syr Tg: Heb my corpse
  2. 26.19 Q ms Compare Gk Syr: MT dust, awake and shout for joy!
  3. 26.19 Heb to the shades

19 But your dead(A) will live, Lord;
    their bodies will rise—
let those who dwell in the dust(B)
    wake up and shout for joy—
your dew(C) is like the dew of the morning;
    the earth will give birth to her dead.(D)

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24 Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain, but if it dies it bears much fruit.

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24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies,(A) it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.

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