Job 14:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

For there is hope of. tree. This is. positive independent statement, about which there is no doubt. There should be. full stop here. Then the Hebrew accents mark off two hypotheses: (1) if it is cut down (Job 14:7) the Spring will wake its sap; (2) if waxing old (Job 14:8) it may still send forth. new growth. But there is no hope of man's living again like. tree. If he is to "live again" he must be raised from the dead.

Job 14:7

7 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.