Job 14:7-12

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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.