Job 14:7

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.

Cross-reference

Job 14:14 Parallel

In Job 14:14, Job questions if man like a tree can live again, contrasting the tree's hope with human mortality.

Job 19:10 Contrast

In Job 19:10, Job says his hope is uprooted like a tree — the opposite of the tree's potential to sprout again.

Job 15:32 Contrast

In Job 15:32, Eliphaz states the wicked's branch will not be green, directly opposing Job's hope for a tree's regrowth.

Job 24:20 Contrast

Job 24:20 says wickedness is broken like a tree with no hope, contrasting with Job's tree that sprouts after being cut.

Daniel 4:15 Parallel

In Daniel 4:15, the stump left in Nebuchadnezzar's dream parallels the hope for a cut tree to sprout again.

Daniel 4:23-25 uses the same tree-cut-down-with-stump imagery to symbolize Nebuchadnezzar's humbling and restoration, paralleling Job's hope.

2 Samuel 14:14 compares human death to spilled water that cannot be gathered, contrasting with Job's tree that can sprout again.

Isaiah 6:13 Allusion

Isaiah 6:13 uses the same tree-stump imagery to represent a remnant of hope, directly echoing Job's metaphor.

Isaiah 11:1 Allusion

In Isaiah 11:1, a shoot from Jesse's stump echoes the tree stump sprouting, applied here to the Messiah's lineage.

Psalm 88:10 Related theme

Psalm 88:10 questions if the dead rise, echoing Job's theme that humans lack the tree's hope of revival after death.

Ecclesiastes 9:4 Related theme

Ecclesiastes 9:4 affirms that only the living have hope, aligning with Job's implication that the dead have no such hope as the tree.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Related theme

Ecclesiastes 9:10 describes Sheol as inactive, reinforcing Job's contrast between tree's renewal and human finality.

Isaiah 27:6 Parallel

In Isaiah 27:6, Israel will blossom and fill the world with fruit — a restoration image similar to the tree's regrowth.