Job 14:8-10

New International Reader's Version

⁸ Its roots may grow old in the ground.
    Its stump may die in the soil.
⁹ But when it smells water, it will begin to grow.
    It will send out new growth like a plant.
¹⁰ No man is like that. When he dies, he is buried in a grave.
    He takes his last breath. Then he is gone.