Job 14:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁸ Though its root grows old in the earth and its stump dies in the ground,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Though its roots grow old in the earth and its stock dies in the ground,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground;

Common English Bible

⁸ if its roots age in the ground and its stump dies in the dust,

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ If its roots grow old in the earth, and its trunk passes into dust,

Job 14:8 Cross References

1 Corinthians 15:36

Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

John 12:24

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.

Isaiah 26:19

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.

Job 14:7

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

Job 14:9

yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth branches like a young plant.