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Job 14:8

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14:8Although its roots may grow old20 in the ground

and its stump begins to die21 in the soil,22

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  1. 20 The Hiphil of זָקַן (zaqan, “to be old”) is here an internal causative, “to grow old.”
  2. 21 The Hiphil is here classified as an inchoative Hiphil (see §53.e), for the tree only begins to die. In other words, it appears to be dead, but actually is not completely dead.
  3. 22 The translates “dust” [soil] with “rock,” probably in light of the earlier illustration of the tree growing in the rocks. Job is thinking here of a tree that dies or decays because of a drought rather than being uprooted, because the next verse will tell how it can revive with water.

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In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Though its root grow old in the earth,

and its stump die in the soil,

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NIVNew International Version (2011)

Its roots may grow old in the ground

and its stump die in the soil,

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

If its roots grow old in the ground

and its stump starts to die in the soil,

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

Though its roots have grown old in the earth

and its stump decays,

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

though its root grows old in the earth,

and its stump dies in the dust,

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,

And the stock thereof die in the ground;

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