Job 14:7-9

Modern English Version

⁷ “For there is hope for a tree,
    if it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
    and that its tender shoots will not cease.
⁸ Though its root may grow old in the earth,
    and its stump may die in the ground,
⁹ yet at the scent of water it will bud
    and bring forth boughs like a plant.