Job 14:6-8

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⁶look away from him, and desist,^[a]
that he may enjoy, like a hireling, his day.

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

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Job 14:6 Cn: Heb that he may desist

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