Job 14:6-8

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁶ Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.

⁷ A tree hath hope: if it be cut, it groweth green again, and the boughs thereof sprout.

⁸ If its root be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust: