8Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,


In Context

5 Man's days are determined; you have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.

6 So look away from him and let him alone, till he has put in his time like a hired man.

7 "At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

8 Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,

9 yet at the scent of water it will bud and put forth shoots like a plant.

10 But man dies and is laid low; he breathes his last and is no more.

Job 14:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:8If its root be old in the earth, and its stock be dead in the dust:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:8Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stock die in the ground,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:8Though its root shall become old in the earth, and its stock die in the ground;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:8If its root becometh old in the earth, And its stem doth die in the dust,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;