Job 14:7-12

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁷ There is hope for a tree:
If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
and its shoots will not die.
⁸ If its roots grow old in the ground
and its stump starts to die in the soil,
⁹ the smell of water makes it thrive
and produce twigs like a sapling.^(A)
10 But a man dies and fades away;
he breathes his last—where is he?
¹¹ As water disappears from the sea
and a river becomes parched and dry,
¹² so man lies down never to rise again.
They will not wake up until the heavens are no more;^(B)
they will not stir from their sleep.