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.
Man may the more claim a peaceful life, since, when separated from it by death, he never returns to it. This does not deny a future life, but a return to the present condition of life. Job plainly, hopes for a future state (Job 14:13; Job 7:2). Still it is but vague and trembling hope, not assurance; excepting the one bright glimpse in Job 19:25. The Gospel revelation was needed to change fears, hopes, and glimpses into clear and definite certainties.