Ayub 14:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Apabila akarnya menjadi tua di dalam tanah, dan tunggulnya mati di dalam debu,

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Apabila akarnya menjadi tua di dalam tanah, dan tunggulnya mati di dalam debu,

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Jikalau akarnya menjadi tua di dalam tanah dan batangnya mati di dalam duli sekalipun,

Contextual Overview

⁷ For if a tree be cut downe, there is some hope yet that it wyll sproute and shoote foorth the braunches againe. ⁸ Though the roote of it be waxen olde, and the stocke thereof be dead in the grounde: ⁹ Yet when it getteth the sent of water, it wyll budde and bring foorth bowes, lyke as a tree that is planted. ¹⁰ But as for man, when he is dead, perished, and consumed away, what becommeth of him? ¹¹ As the waters passe from the sea, and as the flood decayeth and dryeth vp: ¹² So man after he is asleepe ryseth not, he shall not wake tyll the heauens be no more, nor rise out of his sleepe. ¹³ O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me. ¹⁴ May a dead man lyue againe? All the dayes of my lyfe wyll I wayte still, till my chaunging shall come. ¹⁵ Thou shalt call [me] and I shall aunswere thee, despise not thou the worke of thyne owne handes.

Bible Verse Review
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die in the ground: Isaiah 26:19, John 12:24, 1 Corinthians 15:36

Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
And so Lot lyftyng vp his eyes, behelde all the countrey of Iordane, whiche was well watred euery where before the Lorde destroyed Sodome and Gomorrh, euen as the garden of the Lorde, lyke the lande of Egypt as thou commest vnto Soar.

Genesis 14:2
[These] made warre with Bera kyng of Sodome, and with Birsa kyng of Gomorrhe, and with Sinab kyng of Adma, and with Semeber kyng of Seboiim, and with the kyng of Bela, the same is Soar.

Genesis 14:3
All these were ioyned together in the vale of Siddim, where [nowe] the salt sea is.

Genesis 14:10
And the vale of Siddim was full of slyme pyttes: and the kynges of Sodome and Gomorrhe fledde, and fell there, and they that remayned, fledde to the mountayne.

Genesis 19:20
Beholde here is a citie by to flee vnto, euen yonder litle one: Oh let me escape thyther: Is it not a litle one, and my soule shall lyue?

Genesis 19:22
Haste thee, and be saued there: for I can do nothyng tyl thou be come thyther, and therfore the name of the citie is Soar.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,.... Lies long there, and is become dry, and seems to be consumed, on which account there may be the less hope of its flourishing:

and the stock thereof die in the ground; which may make it still more improbable; for this is not to be understood with some interpreters y of the stock or trunk of the tree cut down, and lying along on the earth, and in the dust of it; though it may be observed, that even such a stock or trunk, separated from the root, and as it lies along, will sprout again, as particularly in elms: but it may rather mean, since it is said to be "in the ground", that part of the stock or stump left in the ground, from whence the roots part and spread in the earth; and even though this dies, or at least so seems, yet there being still life and vigour in the roots, they send forth suckers.

y So Piscator and Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Though the root thereof wax old - Though life becomes almost extinct. The idea is, though the root of the tree be very old, yet it does not become wholly lifeless. It is not like an old man, when life goes out altogether. In the very aged root there will be vitality still; but not so in man.

Though the stock thereof - The stump - literally that which is cut off - גזעוּ geza‛ô. The meaning is, that when the trunk of the tree is cut down and dies altogether, life remains in the root; but when man fails, life is wholly extinct.