John Trapp on Job 14:7

Verſe 7. For there is hope of a tree &c.] Here Job ſetteth on his requeſt, verſe 6. with a reaſon: God loveth a reaſonable ſervice, and liketh well that we reverently reaſon it out with him. And for the literal ſenſe, all things, ſaith Gregory, are ſo plain, that there is no need to ſay any thing to that, it being no more then this; either I ſhall have comfort in this world before I die, or never here: therefore grant me reſt now. This argument Job illuſtrateth 1. By a diſſimilitude here. 2. By a ſimilitude,Merlin. verſe 11, 12. The diſſimilitude betwixt a tree and a man, is this; a tree may be hewed and felled, yet feel no pain. Again, ſucciſa repullulat, imbribus irrigata, a tree cut down, if well watered, will ſpring and ſprout up again. But now man, as he is very ſenſible of every ſtroke of Gods hand, neither can he ſuffer ſickneſs or other affliction without ſmart, ſo when once cut down by death, he can by no means be recovered; he cannot revive without a miracle.