Bible verse
For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.
Job 14:7 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 14.
3 Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
4 Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
5 Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
6 look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
7 For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.
8 If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,
9 at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.
10 But a man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last, and where is he?
11 As water disappears from the sea and a river becomes parched and dry,
KJV
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
ASV
For there is hope of a tree, If it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
ERV
For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
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