Although its roots may grow old ¹  in the ground and its stump begins to die ²  in the soil, ³ 

biblegateway Job 14:8

"Though its roots grow old in the ground And its stump dies in the dry soil,

If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump starts to die in the soil,

If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

biblegateway Job 14:8

Its roots may grow old in the ground and its stump die in the soil,

Though its root grow old in the earth, and its stump die in the soil,

bibleoremus Job 14:8

Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground,

Though its root becomes old in the earth, its stump dying in the ground,

biblegateway Job 14:8

Though its root may grow old in the earth, And its stump may die in the ground,

Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;

biblegateway Job 14:8

Although its roots may grow old ¹  in the ground and its stump begins to die ²  in the soil, ³ 

¹ tn The Hiphil of זָקַן (zaqan, “to be old”) is here an internal causative, “to grow old.”

² tn The Hiphil is here classified as an inchoative Hiphil (see GKC 145 §53.e), for the tree only begins to die. In other words, it appears to be dead, but actually is not completely dead.

³ tn The LXX translates “dust” [soil] with “rock,” probably in light of the earlier illustration of the tree growing in the rocks.

³ sn Job is thinking here of a tree that dies or decays because of a drought rather than being uprooted, because the next verse will tell how it can revive with water.