Job 14:7
"For there is hope for a tree, If it is cut down, that it will sprout again, that the tender branch of it will not cease.
WEB
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.
KJV
What Job 14:7 means
It says a felled tree still has hope, because even a dying stump can sprout again when water reaches it, an image Job uses to weigh human death against nature's second chances.
Job says this in the middle of his suffering, deep into a long answer to friends who keep insisting his pain must make sense. Chapter 14 is his meditation on how short a human life is. He reaches for something every farmer of his time knew: cut a tree down and the roots often refuse to quit. Shoots keep rising from the stump, and even old wood revives at the scent of water.
He brings the tree up out of envy. In verses 10 to 12 he presses the contrast: a tree gets another chance, while a man lies down and does not rise. By verse 14 he asks the question the whole chapter circles: if a man dies, will he live again? The book lets that ache stand honestly, and the rest of the Bible keeps returning to his question.