Job 14:7-9

Holman Christian Standard Bible

⁷ There is hope for a tree:
If it is cut down, it will sprout again,
and its shoots will not die.
⁸ If its roots grow old in the ground
and its stump starts to die in the soil,
⁹ the smell of water makes it thrive
and produce twigs like a sapling.^(A)