 | Walter Curtis Lichfield - 2005 - 702 pages
...he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day. 14:7 "For there is hope of a free, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. 14:8 "Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 14:9 "(Yet)... | |
 | Joe Bobker - 2004 - 428 pages
...branch will not cease. Although its root waxes old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground, through the scent of water it will bud and bring forth boughs like a plant." Jewish wisdom is thus eternal, perpetual, never-ending — and sprinkled with a healthy legacy of rabbinic... | |
 | Patricia Montley - 2005 - 406 pages
...the trees whose evergreen boughs offer us the gift of hope. Reader 2 For a tree there is hope, even if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender shoots will not cease. Even though its roots grow old in the earth, and its stump die in... | |
 | Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson, R. P. Hanson - 2005 - 966 pages
...practice is not conf1ned to Ambrose. Cyril can manage to interpret Job 14:17ff, 'For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again', etc., where Job's point is precisely that man does not live again after death, into an argument for... | |
 | 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 - 273 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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