Job 14:7
For there is hope for a tree, even if it should be cut down, that it shall blossom again, and its branch shall not fail.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
6Depart from him, that he may be quiet, and take pleasure in his life, though as a hireling.
8For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock;
Cross References
Job 19:10He has torn me round about, and I am gone: and he has cut off my hope like a tree.
Isaiah 11:1+ 11:1 Rom. 15. 12. And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a blossom shall come up from his root:
Matthew Henry on Job 14:2-7
Brevity and Frailty of Human Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; 6 Turn from him, that he may… Read the whole commentary →