Job 14:7
New International Version
“At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

New Living Translation
“Even a tree has more hope! If it is cut down, it will sprout again and grow new branches.

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

Berean Standard Bible
For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
“For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And that its tender shoots will not cease.

New American Standard Bible
“For there is hope for a tree, When it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And its shoots will not fail.

NASB 1995
“For there is hope for a tree, When it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And its shoots will not fail.

NASB 1977
“For there is hope for a tree, When it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And its shoots will not fail.

Legacy Standard Bible
“For there is hope for a tree, When it is cut down, that it will change back sprouting again, And its shoots will not cease.

Amplified Bible
“For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the shoots of it will not cease nor fail, [but there is no such hope for man].

Christian Standard Bible
There is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its shoots will not die.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its shoots will not die.

American Standard Version
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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because there is hope for a tree that if it is cut, it is renewed again; its offshoots are not lacking

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For there is hope for a tree, even if it should be cut down, that it shall blossom again, and its branch shall not fail.

Contemporary English Version
When a tree is chopped down, there is always the hope that it will sprout again.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it groweth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.

English Revised Version
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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
There is hope for a tree when it is cut down. It will sprout again. Its shoots will not stop sprouting.

Good News Translation
There is hope for a tree that has been cut down; it can come back to life and sprout.

International Standard Version
"There is hope for the tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its shoots won't stop growing.

JPS Tanakh 1917
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.

Literal Standard Version
For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, | That it changes again, | That its tender branch does not cease.

Majority Standard Bible
For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.

New American Bible
For a tree there is hope; if it is cut down, it will sprout again, its tender shoots will not cease.

NET Bible
"But there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

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

New Heart English Bible
"For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

Webster's Bible Translation
For there is hope of a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender branch will not cease.

World English Bible
“For there is hope for a tree if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.

Young's Literal Translation
For there is of a tree hope, if it be cut down, That again it doth change, That its tender branch doth not cease.

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Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
6look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand. 7For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail. 8If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,…

Cross References
Job 14:6
look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.

Job 14:8
If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

Isaiah 6:13
And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land."

Daniel 4:15
But leave the stump with its roots in the ground, and a band of iron and bronze around it, in the tender grass of the field. Let him be drenched with the dew of heaven and graze with the beasts on the grass of the earth.


Treasury of Scripture

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.

that it will sprout

Job 14:14
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

Job 19:10
He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

Isaiah 11:1
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:

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Job 14
1. Job entreats God for favor, by the shortness of life, and certainty of death
7. He waits for his change
16. By sin the creature is subject to corruption
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

there is
יֵ֥שׁ (yêš)
Adverb
Strong's 3426: Being, substance, existence, is

hope
תִּ֫קְוָ֥ה (tiq·wāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8615: A cord, expectancy

for a tree:
לָעֵ֗ץ (lā·‘êṣ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6086: Tree, trees, wood

If
אִֽם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

it is cut down,
יִ֭כָּרֵת (yik·kā·rêṯ)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant

it will sprout
יַחֲלִ֑יף (ya·ḥă·lîp̄)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2498: To slide by, to hasten away, pass on, spring up, pierce, change

again,
וְע֣וֹד (wə·‘ō·wḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb
Strong's 5750: Iteration, continuance, again, repeatedly, still, more

and its tender shoots
וְ֝יֹֽנַקְתּ֗וֹ (wə·yō·naq·tōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3127: A young shoot, twig

will not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

fail.
תֶחְדָּֽל׃ (ṯeḥ·dāl)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 2308: To be flabby, desist, be lacking, idle


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