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“Indeed, there is hope for a tree:
if it is cut down, then[a] it will sprout again,
and its new shoots will not cease;
though its root grows old in the earth,
and its stump dies in the dust,
at[b] the scent of water it will bud,
and it will put forth branches like a young plant.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 14:7 Hebrew “and”
  2. Job 14:9 Hebrew “from”

For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.

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