Job 14:7-9

The Voice

⁷     You know, at least there is a kind of hope for a tree:
        if it gets cut down, it may yet sprout again out of the roots.
        And very likely then, its tender shoots will not die.
⁸     Its roots may age deep under the ground,
        and the stump appear dead in the dry earth,
⁹     But even then it needs only the merest whiff of water
        to bud again and put forth shoots like a newly planted sapling.