Job 14:7-12

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁷ There is still hope for a tree if it is cut down.
It may grow up again and produce new shoots.
⁸ Though its roots lie dormant in the earth,
and its stump is dying in the dust,
⁹ with just a whiff of water, it shoots up again.
As a growing plant, it again sends out branches.
¹⁰ But if a man dies, he shrivels away.
When a person breathes his last, where is he?
¹¹ Waters evaporate from the sea.
A river dries up and becomes dust.
¹² In the same way, a man lies down and does not rise again.
Until the heavens pass away, he does not awaken,
and he is not aroused from his sleep.