If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.
Job 14:7 - Revised Version 1885 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 A tree has hope: if it has been cut, it turns green again, and its branches spring forth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version A tree hath hope. If it be cut, it groweth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout. |
If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.
Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground;
He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone: And mine hope hath he plucked up like a tree.
And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall bear fruit:
In days to come shall Jacob take root; Israel shall blossom and bud: and they shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
And if there be yet a tenth in it, it shall again be eaten up: as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remaineth, when they are felled; so the holy seed is the stock thereof.
The leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the branches thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.
Nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth, even with a band of iron and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts in the grass of the earth: