Job 14:7-12
International Standard Version
Death is Certain
7 “There is hope for the tree, if it is cut down,
that it will sprout again,
and that its shoots won’t stop growing.
8 Even if its roots have grown ancient in the earth,
and its stump begins to rot[a] in the ground,
9 the presence[b] of water will make it to bud
so that it sprouts new branches like a young plant.
10 “But when a person[c] dies and wastes away,
when a person[d] breathes his last, where will he be?
11 As water disappears from the sea,
or water evaporates from a river,
12 so also a person[e] lies down and does not get up;
they won’t awaken until the heavens are no more,
nor will they arise from their sleep.”
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