Job 14:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ “For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that its shoots will not cease.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again and that the tender shoots of it will not cease. [But there is no such hope for man.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ 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.

Common English Bible

⁷ Indeed there is hope for a tree. If it’s cut down and still sprouting and its shoots don’t fail,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ A tree has hope: if it has been cut, it turns green again, and its branches spring forth.

Job 14:7 Cross References

Isaiah 27:6

In days to come Jacob shall take root; Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit.

Isaiah 11:1

A shoot shall come out from the stump of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots.

Job 14:14

If mortals die, will they live again? All the days of my service I would wait until my release should come.

Job 19:10

He breaks me down on every side, and I am gone; he has uprooted my hope like a tree.

Daniel 4:15

But leave its stump and roots in the ground, with a band of iron and bronze, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be bathed with the dew of heaven, and let his lot be with the animals in the grass of the earth.

Job 14:6

look away from them and desist, that they may enjoy, like laborers, their days.

Job 14:8

Though its root grows old in the earth and its stump dies in the ground,

Isaiah 6:13

Even if a tenth part remain in it, it will be burned again, like a terebinth or an oak whose stump remains standing when it is felled.” (The holy seed is its stump.)

Daniel 4:12

Its foliage was beautiful, its fruit abundant, and it provided food for all. The animals of the field found shade under it, the birds of the air nested in its branches, and from it all living beings were fed.