Verse 7
Job 14:7
New Living Translation
7
“Even a tree has more hope!<br>If it is cut down, it will sprout again<br>and grow new branches.<br>
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּ֤י יֵ֥שׁ לָ/עֵ֗ץ תִּ֫קְוָ֥ה אִֽם יִ֭כָּרֵת וְ/ע֣וֹד יַחֲלִ֑יף וְ֝/יֹֽנַקְתּ֗/וֹ לֹ֣א תֶחְדָּֽל
English Translation
For there is hope for a tree; if it is cut down, it will sprout again and its shoots will not cease.
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Chapter 14 Context
1
“How frail is humanity!<br>How short is life, how full of trouble!<br>
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We blossom like a flower and then wither.<br>Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.<br>
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3
Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature<br>and demand an accounting from me?<br>
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4
Who can bring purity out of an impure person?<br>No one!<br>
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5
You have decided the length of our lives.<br>You know how many months we will live,<br>and we are no...
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6
So leave us alone and let us rest!<br>We are like hired hands, so let us finish our work in peace.<b...
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7
“Even a tree has more hope!<br>If it is cut down, it will sprout again<br>and grow new branches.<br>
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Though its roots have grown old in the earth<br>and its stump decays,<br>
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9
at the scent of water it will bud<br>and sprout again like a new seedling.<br>
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10
“But when people die, their strength is gone.<br>They breathe their last, and then where are they?<b...
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11
As water evaporates from a lake<br>and a river disappears in drought,<br>
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people are laid to rest and do not rise again.<br>Until the heavens are no more, they will not wake...
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13
“I wish you would hide me in the grave<br>and forget me there until your anger has passed.<br>But ma...
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14
Can the dead live again?<br>If so, this would give me hope through all my years of struggle,<br>and...
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15
You would call and I would answer,<br>and you would yearn for me, your handiwork.<br>
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16
For then you would guard my steps,<br>instead of watching for my sins.<br>
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My sins would be sealed in a pouch,<br>and you would cover my guilt.<br>
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18
“But instead, as mountains fall and crumble<br>and as rocks fall from a cliff,<br>
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as water wears away the stones<br>and floods wash away the soil,<br>so you destroy people’s hope.<br...
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You always overpower them, and they pass from the scene.<br>You disfigure them in death and send the...
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21
They never know if their children grow up in honor<br>or sink to insignificance.<br>
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They suffer painfully;<br>their life is full of trouble.”<br>
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