Job 14:6-8

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⁶look away from them, and desist,^[a]
that they may enjoy, like labourers, their days.

⁷‘For there is hope for a tree,
    if it is cut down, that it will sprout again,
    and that its shoots will not cease.
⁸Though its root grows old in the earth,
    and its stump dies in the ground,

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Job 14:6 Cn: Heb that they may desist

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