“For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that its shoots will not cease.
Job 14:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 Though its root grows old in the earth and its stump dies in the ground, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Though its roots grow old in the earth and its stock dies in the ground, American Standard Version (1901) Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground; Common English Bible if its roots age in the ground and its stump dies in the dust, Catholic Public Domain Version If its roots grow old in the earth, and its trunk passes into dust, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version If its root be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust: |
“For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that its shoots will not cease.
yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.
Your dead shall live; their corpses shall rise. Those who dwell in the dust will awake and shout for joy! For your dew is a radiant dew, and the earth will give birth to those long dead.
Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain, but if it dies it bears much fruit.