American Standard Version of 1901
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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.
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth,And the stock thereof die in the ground;
Yet through the scent of water it will bud,And put forth boughs like a plant.
But man dieth, and is laid low:Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
As the waters {Hebrew: are gone.}fail from the sea,And the river wasteth and drieth up;
So man lieth down and riseth not:Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake,Nor be roused out of their sleep.
{Or, If in this life only we have hoped in Christ &c.}If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.
For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.
When I lie down, I say,When shall I arise, and the night be gone?And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
{Or, For}But as for me I know that my {Or, vindicator Hebrew: goel.}Redeemer liveth,And at last he will stand up upon the {Hebrew: dust.}earth: