Key Verse Spotlight
Job 14:7 — Meaning and Application
King James 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.”
Job 14:7
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Seeing his days {are} determined, the number of his months {are} with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. {rest: Heb. cease}
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.
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
{Yet} through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
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