Job 14:7
For there is hope of a tree, if it bee cut downe, that it will yet sproute, and the branches thereof will not cease.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
6Turne from him that he may cease vntill his desired day, as an hyreling.
8Though the roote of it waxe olde in the earth, and the stocke thereof be dead in ye ground,
Cross References
Job 19:10He hath destroyed mee on euery side and I am gone: and he hath remoued mine hope like a tree.
Isaiah 11:1But there shall come a rodde foorth of the stocke of Ishai, and a grasse shall growe out of his rootes.
Daniel 4:12Neuerthelesse leaue the stumpe of his rootes in the earth, and with a band of yron and brasse binde it among the grasse of the fielde, and let it be wet with the dewe of heauen, and let his portion be with the beastes among the grasse of the fielde.
Daniel 4:23Where as they sayd, that one should leaue the stumpe of the tree rootes, thy kingdome shall remaine vnto thee: after that, thou shalt knowe, that the heauens haue the rule.
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 →