Job 14:6-8

Lexham English Bible

⁶ Look away from him, and let him desist
until he enjoys his days like a laborer.
⁷ “Indeed, there is hope for a tree:
if it is cut down, then^[a] it will sprout again,
and its new shoots will not cease;
⁸ though its root grows old in the earth,
and its stump dies in the dust,