 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground ; yet through the scent of water it will...  Short Discourses to be Read in Families - Page 371by William Jay - 1833 - 493 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Howard Reid - 2005 - 250 pages
...quotation, the writers have come up with something admirably fresh. I tracked it down to Job 14:7-l2: "There is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that...the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the roots wax old in the earth, and the stock die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it will... | |
 | Ronald E. Young 33° - 2005 - 346 pages
...his bounds that he cannot pass; turn from him that he may rest till he shall accomplish his day. For there is hope of a tree if it be cut down that it will sprout again and that the tender branch will not cease. But man dieth and wasteth away; yea, man giveth up the ghost and where is he? As the... | |
 | Stephen John Spencer - 2006 - 562 pages
...of the earth shall others grow. A wicked man is like a tree with a branch and roots. Job 14:7-9 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 9Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. Job 29: 19-20 My... | |
 | Jude Njoku - 2006 - 113 pages
...happens to a person when he dies? Where does he go? Job pondered over this question and reasoned. "For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the roots thereof wax old in the earth, and the stocks thereof die in the ground, Yet, through the scent... | |
 | Ossie Davis - 2006 - 272 pages
...with any, but beholden to none save our own. "For there is hope of a tree" — this is Job talking — "if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and...not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the Purlie Told Me 93 earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground, yet through the scent of water it... | |
 | Elmer L. Towns - 2006 - 385 pages
...pass; 16| Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. 171 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 181 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 191 Yet... | |
 | Matthew Frye Jacobson - 2006 - 510 pages
...figure-and-ground of consolation and mourning is at the very heart of the quotation from Job: "For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease." The sprout must have seemed uncertain indeed to Curran's generation in 1948; it probably seemed even... | |
 | T. T. Crabtree - 2006 - 401 pages
...is cut down: 265 he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not" (Job 14:1—2). Later on he said, "For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease" (v. 7). C. Jesus simply expanded the definition of life. He lifted it from the limiting confines of... | |
 | Charlene R. Fortsch, Erica Dissler - 2005 - 418 pages
...every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. JOB 14:7-9 For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 9 Yet through... | |
 | Kenneth M. Griffiths - 2007 - 286 pages
...will my life be like when I do come back again? Even Job asked similar questions (Job 14:7-14) "For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it...branch thereof will not cease though the root thereof was old in the earth and stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud... | |
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