Job 14:7-9

Amplified Bible

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“For there is hope for a tree,
If it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
And that the shoots of it will not cease nor fail, [but there is no such hope for man].
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“Though its roots grow old in the earth
And its stump dies in the dry soil,
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Yet at the scent of water [the stump of the tree] will flourish
And bring forth sprigs and shoots like a seedling.