Job 14:6-8

International Standard Version

⁶ Look away from him and leave him alone,
    so he can enjoy his time, like a hired worker.”

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,