“For there is hope for a tree,
When it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
And its shoots will not [a]fail.
Though its roots grow old in the ground,
And its stump dies in the dry soil,
At the scent of water it will flourish
And produce sprigs like a plant.
10 But (A)a man dies and lies prostrate.
A person (B)passes away, and where is he?
11 As (C)water [b]evaporates from the sea,
And a river becomes parched and dried up,
12 So (D)a man lies down and does not rise.
Until the heavens no longer exist,
[c]He will not awake nor be woken from [d]his sleep.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 14:7 Or cease
  2. Job 14:11 Lit disappears
  3. Job 14:12 Lit They
  4. Job 14:12 Lit their

“For there is hope for a tree,
    if it is cut down, that it will sprout again
    and that its shoots will not cease.
Though its root grows old in the earth
    and its stump dies in the ground,
yet at the scent of water it will bud
    and put forth branches like a young plant.(A)
10 But mortals die and are laid low;
    humans expire, and where are they?(B)
11 As waters fail from a lake
    and a river wastes away and dries up,(C)
12 so mortals lie down and do not rise again;
    until the heavens are no more, they will not awake
    or be roused out of their sleep.(D)

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