Job 14:9
yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
In Context
8Though the root of it grows old in the earth, and the trunk of it dies in the ground,
10But man dies, and is laid low. Yea, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Cross References
Ezekiel 17:3and say, Thus says lord LORD: A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers, which had various colors, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar.
Ezekiel 19:10Thy mother was like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters. It was fruitful and full of branches because of many waters.
Romans 11:17And if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a joint partaker of the root of the fatness of the olive tree,
Matthew Henry on Job 14:8-16
Death Anticipated. ( b. c. 1520.) 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. 8 Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; 9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant. 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he? 11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up: 12 So man lieth down, and… Read the whole commentary →